From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il> To: Jack Rickard <jack.rickard@boardwatch.com>; Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A bettertest!!! Date: Saturday, June 28, 1997 2:01 PM

At 04:43 PM 6/27/97 -0600, Jack Rickard wrote:

...

Randy:

I'm with you to a point. But NONE of the measurements were taken from Jack's house. None were taken from Boardwatch's office. And in fact,

...

measurements were taken from 27 different geographic locations. I think that is a somewhat critical element here. We failed to come up with a methodology that could be performed from "Jack's House" without

...

measuring "Jack's connectivity" more than anything else. Obviously,

...

is what I would have liked. Never could come up with an idea on how to do that effectively.

I'm curious - to which ISPs were these 27 sites connected? Can we get a

Yes. The cities and networks are listed in the article. Jack Rickard Jack Rickard 8500 West Bowles Ave, Ste 210 Editor/Publisher Littleton, CO 80123 Boardwatch Magazine (303)973-6038 voice http://www.boardwatch.com (303)973-3731 fax ---------- the primarily that list?

Thanks, Hank