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gih900@jatz.aarnet.edu.au (Geoff Huston) writes:

>rapid growth in usage
>  implies
>rapid growth in demand for capacity
>  implies
>rapid growth in installed capacity
>  implies
>rapid growth in expenditure
>  implies
>rapid growth in required income.

>All assuming of course that you want to deliver a consistent level of service.

>Now this is not the only scenario... you do have a choice here:

>rapid growth in usage
>  implies
>rapid growth in demand for capacity  
>  BUT 
>if income is fixed 
>  THEN
>available capacity is fixed
>  which implies
>competititon for available capacity increases
>  which implies
>degraded service levels as seen by each user.


>The point is that the method of funding a service delivery operation
>will impact on the ability to maintain a consistent quality of service,
>which in turn will impact on the intrinsic value of the service.

why don't find out who is using the link and for what then find alternate
ways of providing those services on this side of the link, the mirrors
on archie.au and other sites are a step in the right direction. other things
that could drop the links usage levels is the dropping of the usenet censorship
and from looking around this place, encouraging australia mud sites, gif site
mirrors ( a more touchy subject I guess), perhaps encouraging the use of a
packet version of talk (sends a line rather than a character) other packet
systems rather than single character systems like telnet which wrap a 
byte of information in 70 bytes (or so ) of address and error checking

just some thoughts anyway


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