Zhang Wang wondered if we should only be charging for successful packets. See his notes on the meeting. Kevin Hoadly mentioned that we must respect the cultural aspects of the web. We need a flexible model, covering un-metered services and those that are charged and guaranteed a quality of service. Richard Gibbens spoke about some experience of a statistics department with charging in New Zealand.
Key issues are flexibility, robustness, creativity.
Richard Weber mentioned the fact that in contrast to the UK telephone calls in Australia are charged a one-off connect charge, but no time charge. There is strong public resistance to changing this. This illustrates the point that what can seem desirable to one user can be disliked by another, pretty much because of a prejudice based of familiarity with a system that has worked in the past. Other comments were made by Ian Wakeman , Bob Day and Jon Crowcroft . The meeting finished at 4pm.