NTAC Peering Working Group

[Michael H Lambert <>]

On 18 Sep 2013, at 12:42, Linda Roos 
<>
 wrote:

> Dear NTAC Routing and Peering Committee,
> Attached, please find, a document on NET+ traffic on R&E routes.  This 
> document has been reviewed by the Network Architecture, Operations and 
> Policy Program Advisory Group (NAOPpag).  Should you have any questions or 
> comments on the document, please let me know.  Thanks.

It's been a while and I've seen no comments, so I will do so now.  I have a 
couple of problems with this sentence:

"While these service providers may transport some “non-research” traffic to 
members over the network, reaching the providers over commodity paths or 
TR-CPS paths which are provisioned like commodity paths will not achieve what 
the community wants with NET+."

1) Where are the data that support this claim about community expectations 
for network performance for Net+?

2) I view TR-CPS as being closer in performance to the R&E network than to 
the commodity Internet.  If there is a prevailing view that TR-CPS has become 
too "commodity-like", then perhaps what is needed is a strategic review of 
the peer selection process, followed by a review of individual peers in that 
context.

Michael

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