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Usenet@NavasGrp.Dublin.CA.US (John Navas) writes:

> [POSTED TO ba.internet]
> abuse@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon) wrote:
> >I have been talking to some heavy-duty players in the provider world and
> >it is generally agreed that in the dedicated-connection arena, we are
> >headed for data-quantity pricing. With high-speed connections becoming the
> >norm, the "natural bandwidth limitations" are disappearing, and providers
> >are going to have to ultimately ration the amount of data that passes
> >through their limited facilities.

Frankly, this is the way it "ought to be done" IMO.

I don't see anything wrong with it fundamentally, and it has a lot of
nicely self-regulating aspects to it.

> Regardless, I personally don't see any real
> issue, since sophisticated ISP's should be able to solve most bandwidth
> problems by caching on their own networks.

You can't cache a lot of the really bandwidth intensive
applications. (Sure, you can cache the porno newsgroups and websites,
and large commonly visited web sites, but you can't (usefully) cache
faxes, email, telephone, point-to-point video, ssh sessions, encrypted
VPN setups, etc.)

---Jim