[ih] History of the Economics of the Internet?

[Barbara Denny]

 I have a vague recollection of Cyndi Mills and this effort.  I also think it didn't seem to progress very far when she was looking at it. 
barbara
    On Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 01:44:42 PM PDT, Greg Skinner via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:  
 
 On Jul 28, 2026, at 9:48 PM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> While I was later doing Internet projects at BBN in the 1980s, I asked one of the people reporting to me (Cyndi Mills) to start up a research topic (may have been an IETF working group?) focussed on Accounting for the Internet.  If we could gather data about usage of the Internet, that would be a precursor to introducing some kind of payments for usage.  That effort didn't get much interest either.
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> I guess there weren't enough economists in the research community.  I wasn't an economist, but I did take several undergraduate courses in Economics so I at least knew the basics.
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> /Jack Haverty
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Yep, there was an Internet Accounting IETF working group <https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/acct/about/>.  There is an archive <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/acct/> available.  Also see Internet Accounting 2 <https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/acct2/about/>.

--gregbo 

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