Sean makes a good point about the importance of the quality of data, but the question is how can good data be made available for research. We've covered this ground before, that firms are not going to make data available. There are better data sets that have become recently available from a few sources, and hopefully improved analysis will result. That said a few things should be kept in mind with academic work. The time from when work is done until it appears in publication is quite legthy, especially when peer reviewed (the Grubesic et al article was peer reviewed). I saw his paper presented in the Fall of 2001, which means he probably did the research in the spring of 2001, and the latest data available was Boardwatch 2000. so, you end with a lag in Internet time that seems horrendous. One of the problems with academia. I do think it is important to think about the best contributions from academia providing tools (algorithm's etc.) to analyze data and view issues from a different perspective. We will never have the quality of data the operations community has. That said I think it is vital to get good feedback from the operations communtiy on our assumptiopns and something this forum has been great with helping with from my experience. I was curious if we put some recent research online if folks would be interested in providing feedback. Happy holidays, sean ----- Original Message ----- From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> Date: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 3:49 pm Subject: Re: Risk of Internet collapse grows
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
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 sgorman1@gmu.edu wrote: 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.
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.
Until we figure out how to collect some meaningful starting data, we can't draw these types of conclusions.