[38631] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Definition of Tier-1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (k claffy)
Fri Jun 8 17:18:07 2001
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 14:17:37 -0700
From: k claffy <kc@ipn.caida.org>
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[warning sub-operational]
what's cool is that andre found that there
is some natural `tiering' of ASes just according
to (almost any topological) quantitative connectivity metrics
http://www.caida.org/~broido/bgp/asoutdeg.html
(math-heavy, no ASes identified, just illustrates that
tiering has some sense manifested in real data,
which i think is pretty cool)
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.... To be sure, mathematics can be extended to
any branch of knowledge, including economics,
provided the concepts are so clearly defined
as to permit accurate symbolic representation.
That is only another way of saying that in some
branches of discourse it is desirable to know
what you are talking about.
-- James R. Newman, World of Mathematics, 1956
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