On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 03:53:04PM -0700, Paul A Vixie wrote:
I hate to ask, but are *you* buying into the host transmit charges? As opposed to client request fee's?
i'm not wedded to sender-pays or to receiver-pays. what i want is to end the subsidies that have brought the internet economy this far. granted that we couldn't have come to where we are in a free market, we can't get on from here without a free market.
therefore the people transmitting and/or receiving packets are going to have to pay, in micropayments of some kind or in variable rates through a settlement-like feedback mechanism, for the bandwidth they cause others to have to provision for.
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