IP Billing and Accounting

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• ASP (Access Service Provider)• Different flat rate per month by speed

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• ISP (Internet Service Provider)• Flat(All you can eat)

• IP/CP (Infor. Provider/Content Provider)• Free, flat rate, usage rate, mixed• Internet advertisement• Use infoshop service for billing and collecting fees

Current status on IP billing

• Peer-to-peer bilateral

• Hierarchical bilateral

• Third-party administrator

• Cooperative Arrangements

Interconnection Arrangements in IP

• QoS based IP traffic processing to meet diverse user requirements

• Questions on continuation of flat rate charging of IP in future

• Increase of IP based Services and Applications (e.g. Multimedia over IP)

• Provide fairness to the user who subscribe different QoS/CoS

Necessity of Billing and Accounting on IP

• The charging/billing algorithms used by the network and service providers will probably remain an instrument of differentiation and competition

• The basic information that needs to be collected in order to allow such charging and billing will need to be standardized.

Understanding on IP Billing / Accounting

Cooperation flow for standardza. in ITU-T

Service/Applicationdefinition

QoS and Traffic features

Identify relevantData Types

Principles

Network capability & req. Inform. Element

SG 2, SG 16, SDOs

SG 12, SG 13, ETSI

SG 4, ETSI, IETF

SG 3

SG 11, SG 13, SDOs

• G.17x, G.IPP, G.QoSRQT• G.VoIP/VBS-island• Y.iptc, Y.1541

• G.825• RFC 2924, RFC 2975• TS 101 321

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