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Re: [re-ECN] ECN fundamentals pt2/2 (was: Re: Name for BoF?)

Mirja Kuehlewind <mirja.kuehlewind@ikr.uni-stuttgart.de> Fri, 02 October 2009 08:26 UTC

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Subject: Re: [re-ECN] ECN fundamentals pt2/2 (was: Re: Name for BoF?)
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Hi Michael,

On Friday 02 October 2009 07:32:18 Michael Menth wrote:
> Apart from that, I wonder whether a monthly congestion allowance or a
> maximum congestion rate can be sold to the customer because that is more
> abstract and harder to verify for the user. Even I do not know what I
> get for a congestion allowance of 1 MB/month or a maximum congestion
> rate of 10 KB/s. That was one of the criticisms I've heard when
> discussing about re-feedback. Opinions?
>
I don't see that you have to sell the congestion rate to the costumer. It's 
just one part of the contract which will have some more or less meaningful 
names like "fast access" or "high speed access". People don't know what the 
max. access speed in todays contracts means neither...

Mirja



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