The Direction of Value Flow in Multi-service Connectionless (1999)
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@MISC{Briscoe99thedirection,
author = {Networks Bob Briscoe},
title = {The Direction of Value Flow in Multi-service Connectionless},
year = {1999}
}
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Abstract
This paper argues that all network providers in a connectionless multi-service network should offer each class of their service to each neighbour for each direction at a single price. This is called `splitedge pricing'. If sets of customers wish to reapportion their networking charges between themselves, this should be tackled end-to-end. Edge reapportionment should not be muddled with networking charges, as is the case in the telephony market. Avoiding the telephony approach is shown to o#er full reapportionment flexibility, but avoids the otherwise inevitable network complexity. `Split-edge pricing' is recursive, applying as much to relationships between providers as to edge-customers. Various scenarios are discussed, showing the advantage of the approach. These include phone to Internet gateways and even inter-domain multicast conferences with heterogeneous QoS. The business model analysis suggests a new, purely financial role of endto -end intermediary in the Internet industry.
