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

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

Re: feast-or-famine, FYI from Edupage

Audrie Krause (akrause@igc.apc.org)
Sun, 3 Aug 1997 23:32:30 -0700 (PDT) 

Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 23:32:30 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <2.2.16.19970803233311.262f3aac@pop.igc.org>
To: roundtable@cni.org
From: Audrie Krause <akrause@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Re: feast-or-famine, FYI from Edupage


On 8/2/97, Jeffrey S. Hops <jhops@alliancecm.org> wrote:
> 
> I second Jamie.  Let's also remember that fees imposed to limit demand 
> generally create a windfall for the entity receiving the revenue (a 
> windfall that increases with congestion -- creating a perverse incentive 
> to _limit_ supply). Does the edupage clip say who would be the recipient 
> of this windfall -- particularly if the charge needed to control traffic 
> is well in excess of actual cost?  I can think of a number of public 
> nonprofit institutions who could use the money more than Bell Atlantic 
> or AOL.  How about directing all usage control proceeds to the Universal 
> Service school and Libary fund?

I second Jeff's suggestion.  And I suspect that if a usage fee "windfall"
was required to go to public and nonprofit organizations, usage fee
advocates would have a sudden change of position. :-)

Audrie

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