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Re: "Using Cloud Resources to Dramatically Improve Internet Routing"


From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () nic fr>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 16:42:11 +0200

On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 03:52:26PM -0400,
 Phil Pishioneri <pgp+nanog () psu edu> wrote 
 a message of 9 lines which said:

Using Cloud Resources to Dramatically Improve Internet Routing
UMass Amherst researchers to use cloud-based ‘logically centralized
control’

Executive summary: it's SDN for BGP. Centralizing Internet routing,
what could go wrong? (As the authors say, "One reason is there is no
single entity that has a big picture of what is going on, no
manager". I wonder who will be Internet's manager.)

Otherwise, an impressive amount of WTF. My favorite: "while
communication by servers ___on the ground___ might take hundreds of
milliseconds, in the cloud the same operation may take only one
millisecond from one machine to another" I thought that universities
were full of serious people, but university of Massachusets may be an
exception?


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