>> ok.  i'll bite.  i think this is worthwhile desire.  but as an internet
>> routing measurement person, i have to ask
>> 
>>     what are the performance charastics of bgp?  what is the resilience
>>     of the routing system?
>> 
>>     what is to be measured, what are the units of measure, how are the
>>     measurements taken, and what are the values of these measurements in
>>     today's routing system?
>> 
>> answer even the first two, and i am sure that ripe labs will have an
>> answer for the rest within a week. :)
> 
> I think these questions worth pondering

oh, indeed.  many future great papers and phd theses lurk here.

> I don't know the answers, Randy. I suspect that you might know some of
> them.

i wish.  these are quite deep research questions at which many really
good computer scientists are barely nibbling at the edge.

as i said some years ago,

    The fact that very good computer scientists are studying the
    internet as a behavioral phenomonon should scare the hell out 
    of us.

rady
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