Joe,
> I am doing a survey to see what naming conventions are used for routers and
> router interfaces as part of a measurement study
On a related note, you might be interested in a study we did a few years ago
about errors in naming router interfaces, where a router in one location has a
name suggestive of a different location (e.g., because a network administrator
did not update the DNS entries for the interface names). See
Ming Zhang, Yaoping Ruan, Vivek Pai, and Jennifer Rexford, "How DNS misnaming
distorts Internet topology mapping," Proc. USENIX Annual Technical Conference,
May/June 2006.
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jrex/papers/dns06.pdf
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jrex/talks/dns06.ppt
In particular, we found that a few "errors" in the DNS names for router
interfaces could lead to significant distortions in measurement studies --
e.g., a study might wrongly conclude that path inflation is very high because
traceroute measurements wrongly suggested that the traffic traverses a
particular sequence of cities...
Best wishes...
-- Jen
