[30718] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Formal study: How many points networks share
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Plonka)
Sun Aug 27 02:15:59 2000
From: Jonathon Plonka <jplonka@gblx.net>
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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 23:10:06 -0700
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I would support this.
-jonp
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000 22:19:17 -0700, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>
>> Almost every major network map looks identical.
>
>this is less true for the real maps than those from marketing =
departments
>and third party dealers in bumph. yes, providers are in all the same
>places, at least in the states. but the details of how they get there, =
how
>they do redundancy, how they handle wet paths, ... differ non-trivially.
>
>but, to your basic question, i am not aware of anyone doing non-fluff
>studies of where everyone inter-connects. hard to do as all the majors'
>inter-connections are under nda.
>
>but i imagine that we would all be willing to reveal under nda to a =
trusted
>research group such as acri, if their result would be well anonymized. =
but
>many of us would all have to send letters to each other giving notice =
etc.
>messy, but may be worth it for quality research.
>
>hey vern, pull your head out of sigcom and think about this one.
>
>randy
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