Re: Formal study: How many points networks share

[Jonathon Plonka <jplonka () gblx net>]

I would support this.

-jonp

On Sat, 26 Aug 2000 22:19:17 -0700, Randy Bush <randy () psg com> wrote:

> > Almost every major network map looks identical.
>
> this is less true for the real maps than those from marketing departments
> and third party dealers in bumph.  yes, providers are in all the same
> places, at least in the states.  but the details of how they get there, how
> they do redundancy, how they handle wet paths, ... differ non-trivially.
>
> but, to your basic question, i am not aware of anyone doing non-fluff
> studies of where everyone inter-connects.  hard to do as all the majors'
> inter-connections are under nda.
>
> but i imagine that we would all be willing to reveal under nda to a trusted
> research group such as acri, if their result would be well anonymized.  but
> many of us would all have to send letters to each other giving notice etc.
> messy, but may be worth it for quality research.
>
> hey vern, pull your head out of sigcom and think about this one.
>
> randy