[10351] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Sun Jun 29 17:04:59 1997
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 13:55:17 -0700
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
Cc: Jack Rickard <jack.rickard@boardwatch.com>,
"Craig A. Huegen" <c-huegen@quadrunner.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970627211331.16719J-100000@zen.cypher.net> [9706.27]
On Jun 27, Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net> wrote:
> in your scenario, customers are considered secondary to having great
> performance on the corporate home page...sounds like a good way to loose
> customers, but a great way to look good on some contrived and ambiguous
> benchmark.
I am certain that there are people at many backbones who
are currently planning out how to do exactly this.
So, even if the Keynote results can be contrived to have
any validity now, such validity will be diminished in a
very short order by such techniques as distributed mirrors,
"intrusive" cacheing, and probably a lot of things that
most of us have never really thought about before this.
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