Lixia Zhang wrote:
On Jun 24, 2009, at 11:04 AM, Pete Templin wrote:
In (your) theory, your paper may hold up. In practice, your definition of stub network is most likely considered wrong, and that likely shifts a lot of the assumptions in your paper.
But I also believe that there are a few common practical patterns that cover majority of reality. We need to be mindful of diversity in real world but also capture basic common patterns (I'd agree that the paper perhaps should have said a few more words about the former).
Skimming the paper turns up a key sentence, "Stub networks, on the other hand, do not forward packets for other networks." What part of that led you to think that stub networks forward packets for 1-4 downstream ASNs? pt