Previously, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu) wrote:
On Fri, 14 May 2004 17:22:03 EDT, "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@invisiblehand.net> said:
Personally, I would like to see a senario where everyone just pays for what they use - it would be a much better system for allowing people who
Who pays for a DDoS attack, or getting flooded by bounces from a spammer's joe-job or A/V companies warning spam when somebody else's box spoofs my e-mail address?
A former employer of mine does something similar to this with a metro-ethernet product they provide. Customers are dropped a FastEthernet port and pay a monthly fee based on their byte count. All of these customers are served off of a wireless point-to-point microwave network that supported, at most, 150Mbits/sec. This isn't generally a problem as the peak traffic on the ring was normally no more than 20 or 30 Mbits, and much more likely to be about 6Mbits otherwise. So, who pays when a new Microsoft SQL server worm comes out, and many of those ports start pumping out 100Mbits of traffic on a Saturday morning? Also, how many people do you have to call in around the country to start physically unplugging customer ports to enable your operations staff to access devices and construct access lists? I'm not personally fond of business models where capacity planning requires the use of a crystal ball, or a rabbit, a hat, and a wooden stick. -doug