As the NSFNET era comes to a close, so will
access to the only
set of publicly available statistics for a
large national U.S. backbone. The transition to the
new NSFNET program, with commercially operated
services providing both regional service as
well as cross-service provider switching points,
or Network Access Points (NAPs), will render statistics
collection a much more difficult endeavor.
In this paper we discuss issues and
complexities of statistics collection at
recently deployed global network access points
such as the U.S. federal NAPs.
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