While the mechanisms in the Internet seem to work today, the most significant service enhancement would be some means to limit the worst-case behavior of each user, so that the resulting overall service was more stable, and some means to distinguish and separately serve users with very different transfer objectives, so that each could be better satisfied.
Predictor: Clark, David D.
Prediction, in context:David D. Clark stated the following in a presentation at the MIT workshop on Internet Economics in March 1995: ”While the mechanisms in the Internet seem to work today, the most significant service enhancement would be some means to limit the worst-case behavior of each user, so that the resulting overall service was more stable, and some means to distinguish and separately serve users with very different transfer objectives, so that each could be better satisfied … It is desirable in the future to provide additional explicit mechanisms to allow users to specify different service needs, with the presumption that they will be differentially priced.”
Biography:David D. Clark was a senior research scientist at MIT’s Laboratory for Computer Science. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: March 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: The Journal of Electronic Publishing
Title, headline, chapter name: A Model for Cost Allocation and Pricing in the Internet
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/works/ClarkModel.html
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