end-to-end business model - [e2e] traffic engineering considered harmful

[Mark Gaynor]

This thread is from a few days ago. 

I have been working on an end-to-end business model as part of my PhD
thesis. Our work looks at the value of providing end-2-end services
compared to more centralized architectures. The main contribution is
linking market uncertainty to the value of being able to experiment. We
show the economic value of end-2-end services in some cases with a real
options like model.  We (Scott Bradner, HT Kung, Marco Iansiti, and
myself) wrote a paper about part of our work:  
www.eecs.harvard.edu/~gaynor/IEEE-special.pdf.  

A modifyed version of this first paper (IEEE-standard.pdf) will be
presented at an upcomming IEEE conference on Standards and Innovation
(www.siit2001.org).  If you are looking for a detailed writeup, send me
email and I will point you to my thesis.


On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Manish Karir wrote:

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> On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, David P. Reed wrote:
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> > At 05:07 PM 6/12/01 -0400, Manish Karir wrote:
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> > >definately a very e2e idea, but misses one crucial fact, that
> > >the network providers are different from the consumers(the ends).
> > >the network providers can never be convinced to trust the ends to
> > >do the right thing(did'nt somebody on this list bring up the issue of
> > >trust earlier...??) think about it...if you spend millions building
> > >out your network, would you let somebody else control it??
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> > Yes, if I could make more money that way.  (and it is only a black and 
> > white decision for those who can't imagine sharing control because they see 
> > the world as a collection of binary exclusions).
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> right and that brings us back to Melinda's comment a couple of days ago...
> "until someone
> comes up with an end-to-end business model, the end-to-end
> networking model is going to remain under assault."
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> manish 
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