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On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Stephen Sprunk wrote: > How much of this research is based on marketing maps on the ISPs' web sites, > versus actual maps of the networks in question? Most "tier 1" ISPs won't > even let their vendors see the latter. last year we *measured* isp maps as part of a research project called rocketfuel and found that the marketing maps can differ significantly from the real ones quite a bit because of lack-of-detail, outdated-ness, or optimistic-projections. a paper describing the methodology and the maps themselves can be found off: http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/networking/rocketfuel/ -- ratul
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