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....prices hog all the bandwidth. It also throws the onus for congestion on other users, and not on the network provider, which again seems to be more palatable. 6 OTHER PRICING PROPOSALS Many proposals have been made for usage sensitive pricing. Extensive information can be found on the Web site [31] and in the collection of paper edited by McKnight and Bailey (of which the reference [1] below is one) Further references, short summaries, and criticisms can be found in [8, 29, 30] There are also interesting new proposals, such as the elegant PFP (Proportional Fair Pricing) one of Gibbens and ....

Varian, H. R. The economics of the Internet, information goods, intellectual property and related issues, reference Web pages with links, hhttp://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon/i.

....prices hog all the bandwidth. It also throws the onus for congestion on other users, and not on the network provider, which again seems to be more palatable. 6. Other pricing proposals Many proposals have been made for usage sensitive pricing. Extensive information can be found on the Web site [Varian0] and in the collection of paper edited by McKnight and Bailey (of which the reference [AnaniaS] below is one) Further references, short summaries, and criticisms can be found in [Clark1, Shenker1, ShenkerCEH] There are also interesting new proposals, such as the one of Gibbens and Kelly ....

H. R. Varian, The economics of the Internet, information goods, intellectual property and related issues, reference Web pages with links, hhttp://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon/i.

....Odlyzko3, Odlyzko4] This paper presents only a brief summary of the results of that study, and concentrates on their implications for present and future data networks. Utilization rates of networks have been strangely absent from most papers on the economics of the Internet, such as those in [MacKieM, McKnightB, Varian]. However, these rates determine costs of services, since transmission links are priced by their maximal capacity. Furthermore, utilization rates are the primary means by which network managers determine quality of transmission. Therefore it seemed important to consider current utilization rates ....

....choke points that lead to frustration with the World Wide Wait, yet there is no way for users to obtain better service. A network offering different levels of service to different types of traffic therefore has attractions. All the standard economic arguments argue in favor of such a solution [MacKieM, McKnightB, Varian]. Charges do not have to be high to have a noticeable effect on human behavior. Still, the question is whether the gains are worth the cost. Any universal differential service scheme will almost inevitably involve a usage sensitive pricing system. So far such pricing has been applied only in ....

H. R. Varian, The economics of the Internet, information goods, intellectual property and related issues, reference Web pages with links, hhttp://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon/i.

....to provide should depend on the value and the price of the service. To decide what is feasible or desirable, we have to consider the economics of the Internet. Unfortunately, the available sources (such as those in the book [McKnightB] or those currently available online through the links at [MacKieM, Varian]) are not adequate. The information they contain is often dated, and it usually covers only the Internet backbones. However, these backbones are a small part of the entire data networking universe. Sections 2 to 6 attempt to partially fill the gap in published information about the economics of ....

H. R. Varian, The economics of the Internet, information goods, intellectual property and related issues, reference Web pages with links, hhttp://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon/i.

....aspect of how the network should deal with packets with different markings. PMP integrates pricing with traffic management. This position paper only outlines PMP. More details and references are available in the initial proposal [10] For other references on pricing proposals, see the Web pages [3, 7, 14]. 2. PMP The main idea of PMP is simply to have several channels that differ in price. They would offer different expected quality of service through the action of users who select the channel to send their data on. The number of channels in PMP should be small, possibly just two, but more likely ....

H. R. Varian, The economics of the Internet, information goods, intellectual property and related issues, reference Web pages with links, hhttp://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon/i.

....prices hog all the bandwidth. It also throws the onus for congestion on other users, and not on the network provider, which again seems to be more palatable. 6. Other pricing proposals Several proposals have been made for usage sensitive pricing. Extensive information can be found on the Web site [Varian0] and in the collection of paper edited by McKnight and Bailey (of which the reference [AnaniaS] below is one) Further references, short summaries, and criticisms can be found in [Clark1, Shenker1, ShenkerCEH] Here I only make a few remarks on the main features of some of these proposals, and how ....

H. R. Varian, The economics of the Internet, information goods, intellectual property and related issues, reference Web pages with links, hhttp://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon/i.

....more detail about methodologies and results is available in those papers. This paper and those studies consider only highlevel aggregate measurements of the Internet, and do not look at details of protocols, say. There are many studies of the economics of the Internet. Most of them are listed in [9, 10, 14]. However, they are old (by Internet standards) and none of them answer such basic questions as how large the various parts of the Internet are, and how much they cost. A key point of the investigation of [2, 5, 11, 12, 13] was the need to consider not just the public Internet, but the full ....

H. R. Varian, The economics of the Internet, information goods, intellectual property and related issues, reference Web pages with links, hhttp://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon/i.

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