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Re: the Internet Backbone
From: "Dave O'Leary" <doleary () cisco com>
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 17:00:03 -0800
I agree with Dave S., either people are going to believe the marketing hype or become educated about what matters relative to the Internet topology. Most are just going to believe the hype so publishing a document with artificial labels is most likely not meaningful. (ref: Bradner testing and equipment throughput results - the vendors make the equipment do well in the tests but the real world is a different story). In particular, the item: -- need special measures to deal with BGP scaling issues inside their AS (or multiple AS) such as confederations, clusters, etc. worries me; this is like announcing at the UN that you can only vote if you have nuclear weapons. Some will be needless encouraged to add complexity to their networks simply to be a "Tier 1". Communications Week (April 1, pp 135-139) has the usual limited view of the world, but its better than nothing, with some related commentary from noted dignitaries. There is a map, showing interconnects and trying to explain how they work. It's probably on their web page somewhere http://techweb.cmp.com/cw/current but I couldn't find it (Paul F. is the search tool guy in our group :-). have fun dave
Current thread:
- Re: the Internet Backbone, (continued)
- Re: the Internet Backbone Curtis Villamizar (Apr 08)
- RE: the Internet Backbone Jim Browning (Apr 06)
- RE: the Internet Backbone Michael Dillon (Apr 06)
- RE: the Internet Backbone Per Gregers Bilse (Apr 06)
- RE: the Internet Backbone Marc E. Hidalgo (Apr 08)
- RE: the Internet Backbone Michael Dillon (Apr 06)
- Re: the Internet Backbone William Allen Simpson (Apr 06)
- Re: the Internet Backbone William Allen Simpson (Apr 06)
- RE: the Internet Backbone Jim Fleming (Apr 06)
- RE: the Internet Backbone Jim Fleming (Apr 06)
- RE: the Internet Backbone Clayton O'Neill (Apr 06)
- Re: the Internet Backbone Dave O'Leary (Apr 06)
- Re: the Internet Backbone Paul Ferguson (Apr 06)
- Re: the Internet Backbone Justin W. Newton (Apr 08)
- Re: the Internet Backbone Steve Goldstein (Apr 08)
- Re: the Internet Backbone Mark S. Fedor (Apr 08)
- Re: the Internet Backbone Craig A. Haney (Apr 08)
- Re: the Internet Backbone Sean Donelan (Apr 09)
- Re: the Internet Backbone Sean Doran (Apr 09)
- Re: the Internet Backbone Nathan Stratton (Apr 09)
- Re: the Internet Backbone Ehud Gavron (Apr 09)
- Re: the Internet Backbone Alan Hannan (Apr 09)
- Re: the Internet Backbone Nathan Stratton (Apr 09)