Applying the current model of the telco transaction based settlement to the current end-user pricing model of the Internet is broken. There is a major disconnect between the two. When a standard telephone call is made one or the other end-user supplies revenue to the company/organization which supplies thier local service. Whereas in the Internet today, both sides pay for the privelege of having a full time open (or long-term part time open) connection to the network. These Internet end-users do not look anything like telephone end-users. Any attempt to apply the current telco model to the Internet model without significant rewriting of one or both will most likely be a taxation upon anyones sanity. There is another disconnect within the Internet that should (if it isn't already) be driving stong change that would most likely invalidate any hack that is developed on the current model. Whereas the cost of delivering packets outside of a small geographical area (call it the "Zero-mile" area) is based upon milage and bandwidth used. Currently in the US most bandwidth is sold at a flat price per Mbit. Whether or not it's billed upon usage or billed upon some predetermined level that the user cannot exceed. This constitues another disconnect between base cost of goods and revenues of sales. As the industry grows more mature, these need to be tied together, otherwise in the end, the end-user will be gouged in one manner or another, and the disconnect of COGS versus Revenues tends to lead toward artificial operating costs. -Chris