[57916] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Selfish routing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Sat Apr 26 20:21:34 2003
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: "Mike Lloyd" <drmike@routescience.com>,
"Barney Wolff" <barney@pit.databus.com>
Cc: "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 19:20:31 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Thus spake "Mike Lloyd" <drmike@routescience.com>
> Roughgarden's work generally seems to get reported on
> backwards. What's a poor journalist to do?
Learn how to present his ideas?
> If I might, his model says the best is between 0% and a max of 25%
> better than the selfish result. Selfish routing may actually get us the
> best possible Internet, although that is not proven.
Selfish routing is the simplest and cheapest to implement, which are large
factors in evaluating the "best" dumb network.
S
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