[144211] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Mon Sep 5 13:33:33 2011
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 17:32:57 +0000
In-Reply-To: <61788FCE-4637-4D54-9096-F5F3346CD5DE@cc.gatech.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 5, 2011, at 11:51 PM, Nick Feamster wrote:
> If the most "valuable" destinations
'Most valuable', 'least expensive', 'least congested', 'most reliable', 'mo=
st responsive', 'least contractually onerous', 'most generous ratio', 'most=
lucrative', et. al. - all these criteria and more come into play in the c=
ontext of traffic engineering, and they're all relative to who you are and =
where you are and where you want your traffic/their traffic/someone else's =
traffic to go. =20
And all the above vary depending upon your business type, business model, g=
eographical reach, topological diversity, etc. So, as you imply, one set o=
f economic parameters and weights for one SP will be completely different f=
or the economic parameters and weights for another SP. It's possible to ro=
ughly generalize based upon SP type, but there are many, many variables whi=
ch will affect routing selection complexity.
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