It is indeed hard to say how useful is to know hop counts when a large fraction of IXP member are remote and plenty of content is cached, but that question was bugging me too and I have been looking into it. From what we could see, pretty stable around 5 hops.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.10963 Disclaimer this is an ongoing work. Feedback welcome! On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 7:33 PM Keith Medcalf <kmedc...@dessus.com> wrote: > >> I'd argue that's just content (though admittedly a lot of it). > > "just static content" would be more accurate ... > > >I would further argue that you can't cache active Web content, like > >bank account statements, utility billing, help desk request/responses, > >equipment status, and other things that change constantly. > > There were many attempts at this by Johhny-cum-lately ISPs back in the > 90's -- particularly Telco and Cableco's -- with their "transparent > poxies". Eventually they discovered that it was more cost efficient to > actually provide the customer with what the customer had purchased. > > --- > The fact that there's a Highway to Hell but only a Stairway to Heaven says > a lot about anticipated traffic volume. > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Stephen > >Satchell > >Sent: Wednesday, 21 November, 2018 20:45 > >To: nanog@nanog.org > >Subject: Re: Internet diameter? > > > >On 11/21/2018 07:32 PM, Ross Tajvar wrote: > > > >
