[10461] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Black)
Wed Jul 2 20:39:58 1997
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 20:38:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
To: "Kent W. England" <kwe@geo.net>
cc: "Sean M. Doran" <smd@clock.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970702134036.006ae278@zeus.geo.net>
nobody is arguing against that. they are arguing against studies that
are anything but useful due to glaring and fundamental flaws in methodology.
everyone would like accurate benchmarks of everything from link level to
end to end application level. they just have to be useful.
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Kent W. England wrote:
> 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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