Re: 206.82.160.0/22

Noel, The only charging scheme that I can see working is to charge people for advertising routes, with the charge related to the scope over which the advertisement is seen. That way, there's a direct relationship between the amount of resources consumed, and the amount charged, which is utterly fair. Since we can now talk about charging: A global charging scheme implies that there is a centralized, global charging authority. That's unlikely to fly in any case. What MAY fly, however, is if individual backbones charge for advertisements as well as bandwidth. This would be charged back through regional ISPs, who would decide which backbones to connect to and charge back to their respective customers. Tony