Panel: Charging for QoS

Abstract

Commercial provisioning of QoS enhanced IP services is not yet reality on a per-user basis. This panel plans to identify open issues that need to be resolved for commercial QoS offerings. Open issues include: Charging in multi-provider scenarios, Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting, Tariff dimensioning, scalable metering of resource- usage. How to address the open issues significantly depends on the selected approach on charging for QoS. The following, to a large extend opposing positions can be identified for suitable approaches to charge for Internet services.