Re: Further Internet Metrics

[Randy Bush <randy () psg com>]

> > > e.g. how do you assign the traffic share of the traffic going to a
> > > smallish network which is multi-homed behind sprint, uunet, and which is
> > > also appears at mae-west?  hint: if you look from a uunet or sprint
> > > perspective, then you assign it to uunet or sprint depending on
> > > perspective.  but if you also peer openly at mae-west, then you don't
> > > assign it to either.
> If nothing else, a couple of well defined measures of market share would
> be quite useful, particularly if they were specified in such a way that
> they could be measured in a deterministic manner.  However, as you
> point out this is essentially impossible, but I wouldn't characterize these
> as political, but rather as market issues.

i chose my example with care.  it's a real problem.  it is *extremely* hard
to get a point of perspective where you can get a meaningful measurement.
even the view from a widely-peered large provider (not a lot of those, eh?)
is biased by the type of traffic that provider has.

randy