At 11:07 AM 1/2/01 -0700, Rodney Joffe wrote:
Randy Bush wrote:
i submit that your metrics are subject to serious question. while we
little of boarwatch, i would hope academics would be a bit more responsible.
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,
assign it to uunet or sprint depending on perspective. but if you also
expect then you peer
openly at mae-west, then you don't assign it to either.
so how about some prudent or accurate, as opposed to merely fast, ideas?
If someone(s) were to outline and define a study/project, and the project passed both the technical and political scrutiny of the NANO in general, CenterGate might be willing to provide some funding for same. We might be even more willing if the project was overseen or assisted by one of the University groups involved in NANOG (Merit, ISI, UofO, CAIDA, etc).
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. dave
It seems to me, however, that the political issues will make this impossible. But if someone can convince "those who must be obeyed" that this would be of general value, I'm open. -- Rodney Joffe CenterGate Research Group, LLC. http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even we don't understand it!"(SM)