juagargi
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2 years ago From @lschulz comment:
The Internet Peering Playbook (available online at https://drpeering.net/HTML_IPP/ipptoc.html) has some examples for typical Internet transit prices. Apparently, $0.63 per Mbps and month was a typical transit price in 2015 with transit cost dropping yearly by around 30%.
Cloudflare has an interesting blog post about the relative bandwidth costs in different regions of the world. Transit prices seem to be lowest in Europe and North America and can be up to 17 times higher in other regions.
Detailed discussion here: https://github.com/juagargi/esdx-scion/pull/1/files/06ddfa1c009ca9575f4a2de80b22832856eb3b49#r882891133
We should find examples of real wholesale prices for bandwidth among ASes.
Operations on prices should be carried out in the service using Python's decimal type.
Representation in the contract should be in currency. For now, always in US Dollars.
Representation of the price in the offer is per standard unit, and it should be "future-proofed". For instance by setting aside a couple of bits for a code point to indicate units the offer is quoted in. Initially we only need to define 1 code point, with others reserved until we see what range is actually needed, or things have changed enough that the original unit starts to run out of room.