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Re: Metcalfes "imminent death of the internet" prediction

Geoff Huston <gih@aarnet.edu.au> Sun, 28 July 1996 02:57 UTC

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At 6:15 PM 26/7/96, George Michaelson wrote:
>How about Brian Carpenters metrics for inter-peer negotiation? 

Brian provoked what I can best term a lively duscussion at the IEPG
meeting in June with this paper. My personal observation is that
these metrics are not will understood in terms of their use in the
context of peering, let alone George's advocacy to use these metrics
as a basis for the measurement of "congestion".

Geoff

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