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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Risk of Internet collapse grows
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Sean Donelan wrote: > On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 [email protected] wrote: > > The full paper is available at: > > > > http://whopper.sbs.ohio-state.edu/grads/tgrubesi/survive.pdf > > > > password: grubesic > > > > It was posted on the www.cybergeography.org website with the password, > > plus I'm sure Tony would like the feedback. > > Was this paper peer reviewed ? > > I'm interested in the problem, but this is not the paper. Not -the- answer but a part of perhaps. I think the paper helps in appreciation of the maths and processes behind the concept > AT&T's network is the most vulnerable? While Onyx is among the least > vulnerable? Onyx is bankrupt, and their network is no longer in > operation. I guess you could argue Onyx not vulnerable any more. This > paper starts out with some bad assumptions, such as there is one NAP in a > city, one path between cities or the marketing maps in Boardwatch are > meaningful. It does mention there being more than one NAP... Its also highlighting a point about increased resiliency through mesh redundancy and it does acknowledge differences of scale. > Until we figure out how to collect some meaningful starting data, we > can't draw these types of conclusions. And therein lies the problem! Plenty of room for theorising tho! Steve
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