Conceptually, though, by giving control to those who pay, we would certainly be on the right track.I don't know how to make it work though. Who pays is a very fuzzy notion. When I access a server that sends me an unsolicited ad, who is actually the principal payer for the traffic on my ingress link? I think we're going to have difficulty extracting an architectural requirement from this.
Good point, determining the one who pays may not always be easy or possible. But I think in the particular case of routing at the Internet edge, things are clearer than possibly elsewhere (especially compared to Internet core routing; and most especially compared to the case where you consider data content, i.e., your example). - Christian -- to unsubscribe send a message to rrg-request@psg.com with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg