Use of Default in the DFZ: banned in philly, see it now on the net!

Pete Templin petelists at templin.org
Wed Jun 24 18:04:57 UTC 2009


Ricardo Oliveira wrote:
> Jack,
> Please give me your ASN and i'll double check our data. As long as the 
> network has 4 or less downstreams, it's  being labeled as "stub".
> More details here:
> http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~rveloso/papers/completeness-ton.pdf

I guess the old adage, "In theory, theory and practice are the same.  In 
practice, they're not.", comes into play here.

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.

pt





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