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Re: Transaction Based Settlements Encourage Waste (was Re: B
From: "Sean M. Doran" <smd () clock org>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 09:05:52 -0700
Mike Leber asked: | Don't you mean senders here? (You seemed to be proposing a senders pay | system.) If not, of course receivers would continue to participate, they | earn money under your scenario for each bit they receive! A transmitter always has the option not to send. If they are unwilling to pay the receiver, they just don't send to it. Note that transmitters and receivers here are not end-to-end, but rather hop-by-hop, organizationally speaking. That is, sender host/site pays its provider, which pays the next provider which pays the next provider which pays the destination. What is paid is a business negotiation, clearly, and one option is that the payment amount is zero (i.e., I will only send you traffic if I don't have to pay for it). Basically that last sentence is precisely the issue between BBN and Exodus (cf. I will only accept traffic from you if you pay for it). Sean.
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- Re: Transaction Based Settlements Encourage Waste (was Re: B, (continued)
- Re: Transaction Based Settlements Encourage Waste (was Re: B Deepak Jain (Aug 26)
- Re: Transaction Based Settlements Encourage Waste (was Re: B Owen DeLong (Aug 24)
- Re: Transaction Based Settlements Encourage Waste (was Re: B Sean Butler (Aug 24)
- Re: Transaction Based Settlements Encourage Waste (was Re: B Sean Butler (Aug 24)
- Re: Transaction Based Settlements Encourage Waste (was Re: B Mike Leber (Aug 24)
- Re: Transaction Based Settlements Encourage Waste (was Re: B Alex "Mr. Worf" Yuriev (Aug 24)
- Re: Transaction Based Settlements Encourage Waste David Diaz/I.P.O.F.-Netrail, Inc. (Aug 24)
- Re: Transaction Based Settlements Encourage Waste (was Re: B Sean Butler (Aug 25)
- Re: Transaction Based Settlements Encourage Waste (was Re: B Alex "Mr. Worf" Yuriev (Aug 25)
- Re: Transaction Based Settlements Encourage Waste (was Re: B Sean Butler (Aug 25)
- Re: Transaction Based Settlements Encourage Waste (was Re: B Sean M. Doran (Aug 25)
- Re: Transaction Based Settlements Encourage Waste (was Re: B Mike Leber (Aug 25)