[115488] 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 15:27:10 2009
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:26:50 -0500
From: Pete Templin <petelists@templin.org>
To: Lixia Zhang <lixia@cs.ucla.edu>
In-Reply-To: <45542DD3-E707-445B-B4A1-FFA8AE1B281A@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Lixia Zhang wrote:
>
> On Jun 24, 2009, at 11:04 AM, Pete Templin wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> But I also believe that there are a few common practical patterns that
> cover majority of reality.
> We need to be mindful of diversity in real world but also capture basic
> common patterns (I'd agree that the paper perhaps should have said a few
> more words about the former).
Skimming the paper turns up a key sentence, "Stub networks, on the other
hand, do not forward packets for other networks." What part of that led
you to think that stub networks forward packets for 1-4 downstream ASNs?
pt
