Accounting Management

• what do you account for?

• if you count packets sent

  • it can inhibit anonymous ftp & web sites
  • QoS differences in the future

• want to charge "user" of service

  • application dependent determination of "user"

• if count hosts

  • is a PC equal to a mainframe?
  • cost?

• usage-based billing may become common as telcos take over Internet service providers