[115482] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Use of Default in the DFZ: banned in philly, see it now on the
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Templin)
Wed Jun 24 14:05:35 2009
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:04:57 -0500
From: Pete Templin <petelists@templin.org>
To: Ricardo Oliveira <rveloso@cs.ucla.edu>
In-Reply-To: <2BE52E9B-6E13-4154-B88E-A683EF221FE0@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Ricardo Oliveira wrote:
> Jack,
> Please give me your ASN and i'll double check our data. As long as the
> network has 4 or less downstreams, it's being labeled as "stub".
> More details here:
> http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~rveloso/papers/completeness-ton.pdf
I guess the old adage, "In theory, theory and practice are the same. In
practice, they're not.", comes into play here.
In (your) theory, your paper may hold up. In practice, your definition
of stub network is most likely considered wrong, and that likely shifts
a lot of the assumptions in your paper.
pt
