[17240] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Great Exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Thu May 28 10:19:58 1998
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 10:05:40 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199805272055.QAA02496@new6.Reston.mci.net>; from Scott Huddle <huddle@mci.net> on Wed, May 27, 1998 at 04:55:46PM -0400
On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 04:55:46PM -0400, Scott Huddle wrote:
> This is all WAG, tho. I'll argue that you can never measure this
> accurately from the network (how much traffic did you *not* count?,
> how much traffic was delivered on campus? is the site multihomed?),
> you have to measure it from the edge.
>
> To really test this you need sampling from the users, ala the Nielson
> method and knowledge of geography for IP addresses. Market opportunity
> anyone?
The problem there, as I at least alluded to in my previous posting is that,
unless you already _have_ the local exchange, there's no was at the
edge router level to log the "local" traffic vs the "remote" traffic --
you could only do it in a local exchange environment by virtue of the
fact that theexchange existed in the first palce, to give the locals a
place to exchange routing info.
Cheers,
-- jra
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