Re: Agenda for next NANOG

[schnell () gsd sprint com (Steve Schnell, Sprint Corporation)]

OK, you can color me a NAP apologist.  As a NAP operator I don't have the
resources at my disposal to conduct the suggested tests.  (A couple of DEC
Alpha or other capable workstations attached to the NAP media would be a
nice asset.)  However, as a L2 network operator I would be VERY interested
in learning of my customers' perception of the service provided.

Steve


At 12:51 8.30.96, Vince Fuller wrote:
>    > Are there other topics you'd like to hear about?
>
>    How about
>
>      Analysis of Actual End to End Performance accross the NAPs/MAEs
>
>    To be given by each operator?
>
>    (as opposed to "everything is wonderful because we dropped no packets
>    across ten feet of level-2 wire")
>
> An excellent topic, to be sure, but how do you propose that this be measured?
>
> About the only thing NAP operators can directly gather and report upon is the
> "ten feet of level-2 wire".
>
> And before anyone color me a NAP apologist (I'm certainly not, as some
> interconnect operators can probably attest), this is a serious question,
> not an excuse for any poor performance that _may_ have been observed at
> interconnects.
>
>        --Vince


********************************************************************************

   Phone:  1.816.854.2113
   Fax:    1.816.854.2201

   Pager:  1.888.366.7890, PIN 398.6644

   Alpha Page via Internet:  3986644 () pagenet net

********************************************************************************




- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -