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From: tron@nsc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: I hate smail
Message-ID: <4074@nsc.nsc.com>
Date: Fri, 16-Jan-87 19:28:28 EST
Article-I.D.: nsc.4074
Posted: Fri Jan 16 19:28:28 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Jan-87 07:26:12 EST
References: <14227@amdcad.UUCP> <32@auspyr.UUCP> <4070@nsc.NSC.COM> <4982@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: tron@nsc.UUCP (Ronald S. Karr)
Organization: Rational Swamiconductor, Sanivale
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In article <4982@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>In article <4070@nsc.NSC.COM> tron@nsc.NSC.COM (Ronald S. Karr) writes:
>>The greatest problem here is ... a lack of standardization on what
>>costs should be used for map entries....

>           ...  Some companies have dedicated, high-speed links
>between (say) California and New York offices.  Going from Palo
>Alto to Rochester to NYC to L.A. may be faster and less expensive
>than going from Palo Alto directly to L.A.

Thus, a well thought-out standard for computing costs should give very
low costs to direct high-capacity links, though it may be preferable to
use two short-distance direct links to get to a site rather than using
two long-distance direct links.  This last point is certainly open to
debate.
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