roundtable: Re: feast-or-famine, FYI from Edupage

roundtable: Re: feast-or-famine, FYI from Edupage

Re: feast-or-famine, FYI from Edupage

Andy Oram (andyo@ora.com)
Fri, 1 Aug 1997 13:36:28 -0400 

Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 13:36:28 -0400
Message-Id: <199708011736.NAA08279@ruby.ora.com>
To: roundtable@cni.org
From: Andy Oram <andyo@ora.com>
Subject: Re: feast-or-famine, FYI from Edupage


I don't know whether the Palo Alto people were advocating 
usage-sensitive charges (per-minute or per-bit or whatever). I'd be 
against that. But "charging according to the amount of bandwidth they 
use" could also mean allowing people to pay more in order to reserve 
a fixed amoutn of bandwidth.  That's fine, in my opinion, and it's 
what protocols like RSVP are meant to support. David Clark, TCP expert, 
suggested a sophisticated way to apportion bandwidth when congestion 
occurs. See

   http://webreview.com/97/01/31/trends/index.html.

Andy


Andy Oram
<andyo@ora.com>

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