[26193] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: A call for the future. Was: Re: Verio Decides what parts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Anderson)
Wed Dec 8 18:42:41 1999
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Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 18:24:30 -0500
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, Dan Foster <dsf@gblx.net>
From: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
Cc: Tim Wolfe <tim@clipper.net>, Vijay Gill <wrath@cs.umbc.edu>,
NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
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Around 03:09 PM 12/8/1999 -0800, rumor has it that Randy Bush said:
>reality check:
>
>if you had 100TB of on-ASIC SRAM you would still be screwed. you can't
>afford the PER-PACKET LATENCY of telco number style portability REFERRAL.
>
>once again: ip is a connectionless protocol. each packet is potentially a
>new route.
Potentially, but not really.
>telcos don't mind a second or two in call setup, because it is CALL SETUP,
>not 42 times a second.
Call setups do not take a second or two. Call setups that traverse 50 switches take a second or two.
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