[10460] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent W. England)
Wed Jul 2 20:37:34 1997
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 13:40:36 -0700
To: smd@clock.org (Sean M. Doran), nanog@merit.edu
From: "Kent W. England" <kwe@geo.net>
In-Reply-To: <ytoh8mu5pw.fsf@cesium.clock.org>
At 11:55 AM 7/1/97 -0400, Sean M. Doran wrote:
>
>Finally, I would rather see people respond to congestion
>in a cleverer fashion, i.e. by deploying or pressing for
>the deployment of better WWW transport technology. ... these ideas
>are more likely to help people and information meet more
>quickly in the long run than any amount of tweaking the
>underlying transport fabric ever will.
>
> Sean.
>
>
Hear hear. The best reason why the latency studies should not be backbone
centric, but more end2end and application-specific.
--Kent
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