[3993] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Agenda for next NANOG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Sep 3 11:14:16 1996
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 96 07:48 PDT
From: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)
To: Guy T Almes <almes@advanced.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Mornin' Guy,
> [] to what extent does a given exchange point (NAP/MAE/etc) constrain
> the performance that a user sees (in what a user thinks of as end-
> to-end). For example, an FTP could flow at 800 kb/s for a given
> pair of users, except that MAE-north is congested, so the FTP can
> only flow at 400 kb/s.
And what type of congestion is it, medium? switch? router? transport? I
need to know what to fix.
> [] to what extent does a given exchange point constrain the performance
> that a provider sees (in what a provider thinks of as end-to-end).
> For example, a given pair of backbones could sustain 20 Mb/s over a
> private interconnect with acceptable packet loss, but can only sustain
> 10 Mb/s over the Altoona NAP.
> From different perspectives, each of these notions of end-to-end has
> meaning. Would you want to consider one or the other or both in the
> panel?
It's the users who pay the bills, but it's only at the provider level that I
(a self-appointed NANOG archetype) can act. Being vastly undereducated, I
am forced to consider both at the moment. If I get smarter (fat chance),
focus may be more appropriate. Feel free to have a bash (and that's what it
takes sometimes) to educate me.
randy
