Yes, everything should be free - lunches included. As Bob Marley says,
one love.... pfffftt

It costs at least two univerisities I know of for national traffic
around the place. Canterbury doesn't charge per se for national traffic
because the cost is subsidised by international traffic, but they still
pay for it. Do you get free traffic at Auckland University? These places
are academic institutions, so you'd think they would get cheap
traffic... maybe so, but not free. You may not be far off the mark by
not charging for local isp traffic, apart from email and newsgroups
(like Paradise), but national is where it gets interesting. What if
national traffic was free, what inevitably will happen is someone will
find a free anonymous New Zealand proxy, and getting international
traffic through that and sending the subsidies all out of kilter

It may not seem like much of a cost to ship data intra isp, but when
you start peering inter-isp, depending on how friendly their agreements
are, they could be charging each other for data, much like interconnect
charges.

Cheers,

Chris

>>> "Jamie Walker" <jj.walker@auckland.ac.nz> 12/14/00 11:53AM >>>
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:34:04AM +1300, Nem wrote:

> Still, I agree that 128k doesn't really cut the mustard. I'd like to
use the
> current jetstream, but with local/national/international pricing
scheme.

I think there's really no excuse for charging for local and national
traffic. The excuse of us being
isolated and it being expensive to get bandwidth here doesn't apply to
traffic that's only bouncing around
the country.

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