Pricing the Internet
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Summary
This page lists some background resource material
on shadow pricing.
After having seen our views on how the Internet should
be charged for, you can see what
other people think.
People who would pay more for a better service cannot do so
I will venture a total speculation that a simple scheme with only two levels
will provide an effective allocation of service
New mechanisms and pricing must go hand in hand to provide a range of service levels
it should be implemented in such a way that users have incentives
to make the right decisions
The point of a fair allocation is to assure the users
that they are being treated equitably.
The problem is to find a useful definition of fairness
The end-to-end congestion control mechanisms of TCP have been a critical
factor in the robustness of the Internet
An increasing deployment of traffic lacking end-to-end congestion
control could lead to congestion collapse in the Internet.
The network must now participate in controlling
resource utilization.
To control the overall sending rate, one must control the congestion
feedback received at the source of the data
High-bandwidth flows should be regulated by having their
bandwidth use restricted at the router
Experience using the network provides a pragmatic sense
of what the response will be to service requests of
various sizes at various time of day.
This idea of expectation as opposed to
guarantee is an important distinction
drastic unfairness that results from TCP flows competing with unresponsive
UDP flows
The TCP protocol itself is subject to change