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These reports were written by a team of local volunteers: Angela Merino, Assina Bounis, Celia Boyer, Eric Bianchi, Irčne Butor, Julian Albert Kilker and Melisa Makzume. The reports summarise information for people not able to attend the sessions. Their comprehensiveness and accuracy are not guaranteed. For more information, please contact the presenters directly. Their e-mail addresses are available at http://www.isoc.org/inet98/program.shtml
Track 3: Commerce and Finance Session : Commerce Issues for Internet Service Providers By Irčne Butor and Hassina Bounif, 23 July 1998 Paul Pierlot < pierlot.paul@ic.gc.ca >
presented a survey ( http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/networks
) conducted by Industry Canada (with Catherine Peters < peters.catherine@ic.gc.ca > and Marc Lee
< rain@web.net >). This survey provides the ISP
industry with intelligence for market analysis. The residential market is the largest
source of revenue, but business sections are more profitable. Market segmentation is a
successful strategy. Despite strong competition there is still room for small players. When asked: "What is the interest of your survey for ISP? Does it provide them
with a commercial strategy?" He answered: "It does, it provides them with
information about how to (for example) benchmark themselves against industry performance.
The problems they are facing, are similar to those of others and suppose cooperation in
the area where they should act. So it does provide them with information. We hopes the
next survey will be even more relevant " Burkhard Stiller < stiller@tik.ee.ethz.ch
> from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland) talked about Charging
and Accounting for Integrated Internet Services. Traditional Internet provides best effort
services. This is going to change. Remaining problems for the integrated service networks
include variety of service, number of technologies, emerging integrated services, securing
electronic payments. Charging and accounting mechanisms based on economic models are an
excellent source for policy making. Todays transition from phase 2 to 3 is driven by
new technology development. The survival of an ISP depends on it getting a minimum number
of users. On the other hand to many users produce congestion. John du Pre Gauntt < johngauntt@pnewire.com
> from Public Network Europe (United Kingdom) talked about Financing Internet
Bandwidth. The goal is to match speed and reliability to the underlying telecom
infrastructure of the Internet. The market for bandwidth is dominated by telecoms. Users
have the choice of leasing telecom lines, building their own infrastructure or find the
best deal from network providers. There are some possibilities for writing a financial
contract about bandwidth. Slowly public markets for bandwidth capacity are beginning. |
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