North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Formal study: How many points networks share
I would support this. -jonp On Sat, 26 Aug 2000 22:19:17 -0700, Randy Bush <[email protected]> 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 >
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