"Using Cloud Resources to Dramatically Improve Internet Routing"

Mon Oct 7 14:42:11 UTC 2019

On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 03:52:26PM -0400,
 Phil Pishioneri <pgp+nanog at psu.edu> wrote 
 a message of 9 lines which said:

> Using Cloud Resources to Dramatically Improve Internet Routing
> UMass Amherst researchers to use cloud-based ‘logically centralized
> control’

Executive summary: it's SDN for BGP. Centralizing Internet routing,
what could go wrong? (As the authors say, "One reason is there is no
single entity that has a big picture of what is going on, no
manager". I wonder who will be Internet's manager.)

Otherwise, an impressive amount of WTF. My favorite: "while
communication by servers ___on the ground___ might take hundreds of
milliseconds, in the cloud the same operation may take only one
millisecond from one machine to another" I thought that universities
were full of serious people, but university of Massachusets may be an
exception?