[2324] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: NANOG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Wed Apr 3 21:22:34 1996
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 19:05:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
cc: letters@infoworld.com
In-Reply-To: <v01510101ad88020b05ac@[141.211.7.177]>
On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, Jeff Ogden wrote:
> >From my point of view (from my customers' point of view) the Internet in
> the US is failing right now. It hasn't collapsed, but some parts are almost
> unusable due to congestion.
IMHO a good portion of this is due to overstressed WWW servers and/or
undersized links to very popular WWW server sites. This is not a network
problem, per se, it is a problem caused by and solvable by the people who
operate very popular WWW server sites. One site that is getting worse and
worse is http://www.zdnet.com which carries things like MacWeek and PCWeek.
> I think lots of people are working hard to
> improve that situation and I do think it will get better over time (and
> then it will get worse again and better and ..., just as it has in the
> past). I do think communication about who is doing what, could be better.
Classic problems caused by stupendously amazing growth rates....
P.S. have a look at http://www.interop.com/metcalfe.html if you want to
read an interesting retrospective by Bob Metcalfe.
Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022
Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049
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