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Pricing schemes for Internet services have turned out to be of crucial influence for the competitiveness of Internet Service Providers (ISP). Despite of this urgent demand, there is still no standard tariff scheme that solves the so-called “feasibility problem”, i.e. ensures simultaneously technical feasibility, economic efficiency and user acceptance. This paper investigates the reason for the apparent shortage of “new schemes under the sun” and deals with the inherent time-scale based structure of Internet pricing schemes. Tariffs are viewed in terms of mappings between different time-scales that can be expressed in the form of Tariff Matrices with a particular tridiagonal form. It turns out that all established proposals fit perfectly into the resulting framework, and that on the other hand there is no room for novel approaches left until a new (temporal) dimension is added. Introducing the dimension of “delay of charging” into the framework gives rise to a completely new class of dynamic tariffs, as is shown by means of two promising examples for the resulting schemes, i.e. the Cumulus Pricing Scheme (CPS) for the Differentiated Service (DiffServ) architecture and the Connection-Holder-is-Preferred-Scheme (CHiPS) for dynamic multiprovider auctions.