roundtable: Internet pricing (EDUPAGE-CITS)

roundtable: Internet pricing (EDUPAGE/CITS)

Internet pricing (EDUPAGE/CITS)

W. Curtiss Priest (BMSLIB@mitvma.mit.edu)
Mon, 08 May 95 08:00:38 EDT 

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Date:         Mon, 08 May 95 08:00:38 EDT
From: "W. Curtiss Priest" <BMSLIB@mitvma.mit.edu>
Subject:      Internet pricing (EDUPAGE/CITS)
To: Telecommunications Policy Roundtable <ROUNDTABLE@CNI.ORG>


INTERNET PRICING DILEMMA
Any attempts to monitor information sent over the Internet in order to
charge for it will be so expensive that the network's operating cost will
increase to the point where users will have to pay more, says Tony 
Rutkowski, executive director of the Internet Society.  "It won't be worth 
the trouble to account for users' consumption of the network's capacity." 
(Technology Review, May/June '95 p.24)

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