[ppml] [narten at us.ibm.com: PI addressing in IPv6 advances in ARIN]

[Peter Sherbin]

> In a packet-switched environment, it gets substantially more difficult
> to implement in a fair or equitable manner.

The Internet billing model is simple:

(Download - Upload) * $/bit = Billed Amount

It is based on two assumptions:
1. People access the Internet to download content
2. Paying party controls their download activity

If security becomes a prohibitive concern for the above then the product is just not
ready for use.

Peter

--- Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:

> 
> >> Back then, telephone companies counted every penny
> >> of every single point-to-point 
> > 
> > They counted minutes not pennies. For telco a minute is a basic cost
> > driver that suits very well for cost models, billing, pricing,
> > settlements etc. The Internet equivalent of the minute is one bit. Any
> > prudent ISP would want to count every bit for each customer for proper
> > billing, settlements, etc.
> > 
> The problem with this theory is that in the telephone model, there is
> a (relatively) clear relationship between the initiator of the call
> and someone who wants to pay for the traffic.
> 
> In the internet, often, connections are initiated somewhat outside
> of the users control by advertisers. In these cases, advertisers
> should be seeing the bill for the bits, not the user who received
> the pop-up or click-ad as an IMG tag in some web page he went to
> or email he received.
> 
> On the internet, there simply isn't a good mechanism for tying either
> end of the connection to who should pay for it.  To further complicate
> this matter, there is the issue of spoofed address traffic.  Should
> I really be billed for someone originating a terrabyte of traffic I
> didn't know existed, just because they picked one of my IP addresses
> at random?
> 
> Per-minute or per-unit pricing works in a circuit-switched environment.
> In a packet-switched environment, it gets substantially more difficult
> to implement in a fair or equitable manner.
> 
> Owen
> 
> 
> -- 
> If it wasn't crypto-signed, it probably didn't come from me.
> 


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