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 | | Where usage-sensitive accounting is used, cost ceilings and floors may still be established by static parameters, such as "pipe size" for fixed connections or "connection time" for dial-up connection, to satisfy the need for some predictability. |
 | | Mills, Hirsh, & Ruth [Page 6] RFC 1272 Internet Accounting: Background November 1991 The network administrator is usually not interested in accounting for end-systems outside his administrative domain; his primary concern is accounting to the level of other ADJACENT (directly connected) administrative domains. |
 | | Meters can be configured to generate either a static set of variables whose values are incremented, or a stream of records that must be periodically transferred and removed from the meter's memory. |
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