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To: matt gray who wrote (18059)	12/19/1999 1:22:00 PM
From: E. Davies	Respond to of 29970

I appreciate much the example. It makes things clearer. A few questions though: All the points have different travel distances and therefore cost different amounts per bit. Say we skip this costing detail? How painful would it be then? What I had imagined is just charging at either the destination (by customer source @ the headend) or more simply at whereever the meet point is. Something basic like $x/gigabit/day. Or even $x/month for a DS-3 line access. Don't forget I'm talking a solution by the market not by the government which has to get into the gory details to "guarantee that it is fair". People lease capacity all the time from other providers- it is nothing new. How does my 2 person ISP get access to the cloud today? These schemes [implementations differ between MSOs] are usually contention based. Are you sure about this? Of course you must be. It sounds insane for broadband, and I'd never heard this before. Where exactly and in which direction? As ATHM maybe my NOC monitored these links to minimize impact and provision additional circuits or subdivide nodes etc now I have multiple players who have different opinions on what quality of service is not to mention how to fix it. Here is where a certain mindset is required to make this work. Providing a quality service is still in the hands of the MSO and @home. The customer still sees that he is buying the access from the cable company- just choosing a different ISP. Does this satisfy the goals of the public? I don't know for sure- I'm not even sure why they want "open" access anyway. The only reason I can think of is so that people can keep their e-mail addresses and home page locations so I think it would be satisfactory. In this way the MSO's and @home are providing a service for a price to the ISP's. They would still be responsible for the entire process- including details like subdiving nodes etc. In a way you might say that MSO/@home is providing access to the customer not access to the wire. Just tell the customer that they are using Mindspring@home instead of Comcast@home and they get the idea (though its not exactly correct). There is still the very significant issue that the ISP is reselling service from a primary competitior- but nothing I've seen can solve this issue without painful regulation. Eric