[AusNOG] ISP pricing in the NBN world

[Mark Newton]

On 16/04/2012, at 19:18, "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins at arbor.net> wrote:

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> On Apr 16, 2012, at 4:37 PM, Mark Newton wrote:
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>> I'm imagining a service that aggregates the billing policies from a large number of carriers and provides subscription access to XML files which my phone can download to automate its path selection algorithm. 
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> Gotcha - but this doesn't exist yet, and likely won't for a long time, as it requires parties who see no direct incentive to cooperate to work together, as well as external information about transit costs and so forth which unfortunately simply isn't available as metadata.
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So you're trying to say that it's the same problem scope as third party TV guides and RSS feeds of google earth coordinates for public toilets then, eh?

Gotcha.

    - mark