Re: Selfish routing

[Michael.Dillon () radianz com]

> > 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