roundtable: Re: Internet pricing (EDUPAGE-CITS)

roundtable: Re: Internet pricing (EDUPAGE/CITS)

Re: Internet pricing (EDUPAGE/CITS)

Vigdor Schreibman - FINS (fins@access.digex.net)
Wed, 10 May 1995 02:36:29 -0400 (EDT) 

Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 02:36:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Re: Internet pricing (EDUPAGE/CITS)
In-Reply-To: <9505081201.AA23855@a.cni.org>
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950510023454.12279A-100000@access5.digex.net>


On Tue, 9 May 1995, W. Curtiss Priest wrote:
> 
> 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)


  Isn't this the same conclusion we reached some months ago in response 
to the bogus "shortage pricing" argument presented at the MIT conference?

Vigdor Schreibman 
<fins@access.digex.net>

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