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Re: Selfish routing

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@radianz.com)
Mon Apr 28 05:28:06 2003

To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 10:27:15 +0100
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>> In brief,
>> the paper's says that under certain assumptions the globally optimal
>> latency would be only 25% better than the selfish result.

>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.

This sounds a lot like the 80-20 rule. Selfish routing gets you 80%. 
Infinite knowledge will bring you up to 100% of what is possible but that 
presumably costs a very large amount of money.

--Michael Dillon



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