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>>> 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
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