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From: bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  Simple Cost Accounting Policy
Message-ID: <309@orange2.qtp.ufl.edu>
Date: 1 May 88 19:24:28 GMT
References: <8804291239.AA21630@jvnca.csc.org>
Reply-To: bernhold@orange2.qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt)
Organization: University of Florida Quantum Theory Project
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In article <8804291239.AA21630@jvnca.csc.org> heker@JVNCA.CSC.ORG (Sergio Heker) writes:
>Thus I suggest 
>the fix cost depending on line bandwidth (as I recall Craig Partridge 
>suggested this before).

It seems to me that in the long run this is going to be a problem.  If
sites are charged based on the bandwidth of their connection to the
net, most bean-counters aren't likely to be overly generous with the
capacity they are willing to fund.  Then nobody is going to have the
bandwidth for any more than their own usage & nobody will be willing to
sacrifice their much-needed bandwidth to pass somebody else's packets
on to another destination.  And very quickly the net looses its
usefulness.

Is my view overly simplistic or too pessimistic (sp?)??  
Dave


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