[12971] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Possible topic?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorian R. Kim)
Tue Oct 21 22:13:04 1997
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 21:55:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian@blackrose.org>
To: "Justin W. Newton" <justin@priori.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19971021134919.01044c60@priori.net>
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Justin W. Newton wrote:
> Is it possible, even at this late date, to allow someone from MFS to
> comment at NANOG on what is being done to relieve inter switch congestion
> at MAE East and West and what kind of time frames we can expect a
> resolution in?
>
> This is seriously affecting the performance of the Internet as a whole, and
> seems to me to be a very valid operational topic for the conference.
Then perhaps it might of interest to start a meta discussion about
problems of scalability of Gigaswitch based exchange points as well as
possible future direction of such large exchange points?
-dorian
