Re: the iab & net neutrality

To quote from the Carpenter draft:...

"One approach to resolving the current crisis in Internet
  performance is to institute an efficient system of
  inter-carrier settlements."

Progress is often hard when you are heading in off in the weeds.

Try http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2005-01/interconn.html as an alternative 
view of the ISP settlement world.

regards,

     Geoff

At 12:12 PM 25/03/2006, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>I know I'm going to regret saying this, but we haven't made much progress
>in ten years.
>http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-carpenter-metrics-00.txt
>I got a lot of interest in that draft, none of which came from
>ISPs...
>
>    Brian
>
>Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
>>I think that people need to consider that maybe there might be advantages to
>>non-flat rate, non-consumer pays charging models.
>>I don't expect the attempted shakedown of Google to work and there are
>>certainly tactics that they could use to preclude any desire on the part of
>>the carriers to do any such thing.
>>
>>A much more interesting case would be delivery of video on demand. This is
>>surely what the proponents of the sender pays scheme are really thinking
>>about.
>>If I am going to send a copy of a $200 million action movie to a viewer I am
>>going to expect to be paid for that. The viewer is going to expect a high
>>quality viewing experience. The problem is that the bandwidth they subscribe
>>to for Web browsing purposes may not be great enough to support that viewing
>>experience.
>>If I am charging $8 for a movie I might well be willing to pay $0.50 to the
>>carrier as a distribution fee in exchange for access to high bandwith pipe
>>for an interval.
>>
>>The point here is that higher bandwidth costs more to provide. If the
>>bandwidth is provided to every subscriber all the time the costs are much
>>greater than providing the ultra-high speed to a small pool of subscribers
>>who need it for a limited time and purpose. If the high bandwidth is added
>>to the general pool then it will be diluted by contention and the folk
>>running file sharing &ct.
>
>
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