On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 06:33:43PM +1200, Michael Jager wrote:
Would ISPs be able to use this service to determine charging for national/international traffic,
If they had a contract with their customers that said "you get billed at rate X for traffic to or from this particular set of addresses, and at rate Y for other traffic", it would seem like the only service usable for rating. Otherwise, no. Ixia provide that kind of service, incidentally: http://www.ixiacom.com/products/paa/netops/IxMapping.php I've never used it, so I don't know how good it is.
or would that not work because not all national traffic stays national?
The clear sales people used to sell people bundles based on "national" and "international" taffic, but that's really not what they were selling. The "national" category consisted of packets carried within clear's network towards their destination (or from the source, for inbound traffic to the customer) without crossing one of clear's international circuits; the "international" category was everything else. In other words, the distinction was enforced through measurement and control on the international circuits themselves, and not by measuring general traffic and rating it afterwards. So, you need to describe your terms more exactly. Under clear's use of "national traffic", all national traffic "stays national" by definition, and your question makes no sense. Joe - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog