Agenda for next NANOG

Sat Aug 31 04:29:53 UTC 1996

In message <Pine.SOL.3.95.960830201535.15619K-100000 at nic.hq.cic.net>, "Dorian R
. Kim" writes:
> On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Randy Bush wrote:
> 
> > Maybe it is time to get real metrics and real measurements of the different
> > pieces, so we can see where things are fine, where we have current problems
> ,
> > and where problems could be in the future.
> 
> This goes beyond just public interconnects. If you are one level removed from
> NSP level, the status and performance of private interconnects between variou
> s
> NSPs become a subject of great deal of interest. 
> 
> Here, the general dearth of information about performance and status gets eve
> n
> worse than it is with public exchange points.
> 
> I wonder if this is something involved parties (MCI, Sprint, UUNet and ANS)
> are willing to talk about, given that I've noticed some degradation on
> performance across some of these private interconnects already.. (and it's
> only been couple of months since they came online!)
> 
> I understand that these are private arrangements between involved parties, bu
> t
> given their importance, it would be a great service to the community if the
> involved parties could share some information.
> 
> -dorian

Dorian,

I think your best bet is to run NPD.  btw- Did you look at the NetNow
stats while they were still up?

Someone from Merit?  Why were these stats removed?

Curtis