Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>
> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 20 January 2009 10:55 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>
>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 13 January 2009 15:12 : \____
>>>
>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>
>>>>> When bandwidth is free
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>| Monopolists have, so far, convinced people in both parties that they are
>>>>>| essential to the maintenance of the Internet. They are not. The Internet
>>>>>| was a network-of-networks from the beginning, and must become one again.
>>>>>|
>>>>>| Let 2009 begin the task of breaking this monopoly, of freeing the bits,
>>>>>| and of getting economic growth going again.
>>>>> `----
>>>>>
>>>>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=3226
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The internet has always run on telco networks.. it's just that it used
>>>> to be paid for by universities, libraries, governments, military and so
>>>> on. In recessionary times, who should pay?
>>>
>>> People pay their ISPs.
>>>
>>
>> Indeed, but not for what they use - high users generally get an
>> excellent deal on the back of low users.
>>
>> Is this fair?
>
> Tariffs for levels of use would be fair; net neutrality violations
> (throttling), however, would not.
>
I agree. The temptation to do "deep packet inspection" is very strong,
to a great extent, because there are companies making and marketing such
boxes, and it's perceived to be simpler and much less expensive by many
to insert such boxes into the network streams, rather than use them to
count packets and create a more complex bill.
A few other issues brew up with usage level tariffs, too, though, not
the least of which is what do you do when someone suddenly ups their
usage? Did they mean to?
Billing is not a simple world.
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