wiretapping continues....
Martin L. Schoffstall
schoff at us.psi.com
Thu Oct 27 13:48:04 UTC 1994
> John Scudder then discussed some modeling he and Sue Hares have done
> on the projected load at the NAPs. The basic conclusions are that the
> FDDI technology (at Sprint) will be saturated sometime next year and
> that load-balancing strategies among NSPs across the NAPS is
> imperative for the long term viability of the new architecture. John
> also expressed concern over the lack of expressed policy for
> the collection of statistical data by the NAP operators. All of the
> NAP operator are present and stated that they will collect data, but
> that there are serious and open questions concerning the privacy of
> that data and how to publish it appropriately. John said that
> collecting the data was most important. Without the data, there is
> no source information from which publication become possible. He said
> that MERIT/NSFNET had already tackled these issues. Maybe the
> NAP operators can use this previous work as a model to develop their
> own policies for publication.
>
Merit/NSFNet already tackled these issues in an insufficent and unopen manner.
MarkFedor/ColeLibby from PSI said there was a "quiet" admission that the old
methodology was already "approved" for the SPRINT NAP.
Marty
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