a radical proposal (Re: protocols that don't meet the need...)
Edward B. DREGER
eddy+public+spam at noc.everquick.net
Thu Feb 16 00:52:36 UTC 2006
PJ> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:41:15 +0000 (GMT)
PJ> From: Paul Jakma
PJ> <aside: text below seems to reply to me specifically, but for some strange
PJ> reason you decided to strip my address from your reply.>
That portion did, but the rest of my message did not. VZW's 1xRTT
service was getting ugly, so I didn't re-paste your headers from the
original message.
PJ> > BTW, Paul, FixedOrbit reports 701 as having ~1500 peers and downstreams.
PJ> > As interconnected as even they are, that's still a far cry from the
PJ> > full-mesh O(N^2) situation you seemed to suggest.
PJ>
PJ> I'm not sure what bearing any specific number has on O(n^2) behaviour.
O(N^2) only becomes problematic [when it actually happens and] when the
net result is large. For a given N, O(N^2) can be smaller thatn O(ln N)
if the latter has a smaller coefficient.
Moreover, I'm convinced the problem isn't O(N^2) in practice. Someone
with more math skills than any poster in this thread (self included)
needs to weigh in, but... again...
Empirically speaking, how many different transits service the same
geographic areas _and_ will share a downstream? "Lots" of providers in
1 Wilshire, Telehouse NY, PAIX, et cetera, yet any of those locations
is lucky to have 1% of the total transit networks.
I'll spell it out again: In reality, one need not worry about each
transit AS sharing an ASN with every other transit AS. The Internet is
not a full mesh, peering is not full-mesh, and it baffles me no end why
so many people think coop ASNs _would_ be full mesh.
Stop. Examine. Think. Then respond.
PJ> However, if you want to look at specific numbers, plug '10' in there, then
PJ> try '20'.
I started out with 100. See previous posts. Now, show me the market
with 100 ASes where downstreams will connect to every last combination
of them. BTW: With the status quo, each downstream needs its own ASN
and announces its own prefixes.
Let's also keep in mind the self-bounding nature of the problem. Hint:
30k transit ASes * 30k transit ASes / 2 = 450M combinations
Does anyone here really believe that 450M people will dual home, and
that _all_ will have _separate_ provider combinations?
Coop ASNs/IP save ASNs and aggregate routes. Full stop.
Eddy
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