Differentiated services for the Internet are undergoing intensive development. It is widely accepted that they will require usage-sensitive pricing. The Paris Metro pricing (PMP) proposal is to rely on pricing alone to provide differentiated services. PMP is the simplest differentiated services system in terms of complexity.
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