RFC 1930 Guidelines for creation, selection, and registration of an Autonomous System (AS)
RFC 2270 Using a Dedicated AS for Sites Homed to a Single Provider
Comments:
The notion of an Autonomous System (AS) should not be confused with
that of an Autonomous Routing Domain (ARD). Even if these notions where
at one time more or less the same, current usage demands a distinction.
For instance,
Most ARDs in the internet do no use any AS number. They are statically "nailed up" at the edge of the net.
Many ARDs are implemented with multiple ASes. This is especially true in the ISP world.
Many distinct ARDs can be found using the same AS number. See RFC 2270.
Conclusion: ASes are an implementation detail of interdomain routing. Beware of misinterpretations!
The Impact of Internet Policy and Topology on Delayed Routing Convergence.
Craig Labovitz (University of Michigan), Abha Ahuja (Merit Network), Roger Wattenhofer
(Microsoft), Srinivasan Venkatachary (Microsoft).
INFOCOM 2001.
(postscript)
The Impact of Internet Policy on Internet Paths.
Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit (USC/Information Sciences Institute), Ramesh Govindan
(USC/Information Sciences Institute), Scott Shenker (ACIRI), Deborah Estrin
(USC/Information Sciences Institute)
INFOCOM 2001.
(postscript)
Routing Stability in Congested Networks: Experimentation and Analysis.
Aman Shaikh, Lampros Kalampoukas, Rohit Dube, and Anujan Varma.
SIGCOMM 2000.
(postscript).
An Experimental Study of BGP Convergence.
Craig Labovitz, Abha Ahuja, Abhijit Abose, and Farnam Jahanian.
SIGCOMM 2000.
(postscript).
Also as Microsoft Technical Report.
Origins of Internet Routing Instability.
C. Labovitz, R. Malan, F. Jahanian.
INFOCOM99, New York, NY, June, 1999.
(postscript).
Experimental Study of Internet Stability and Wide-Area Network Failures.
C. Labovitz, A. Ahuja, F. Jahanian.
Proceedings of FTCS99, Madison, WI, June 22, 1999.
(pdf).
Internet Routing Instability.
Craig Labovitz, G. Robert Malan and Farnam Jahanian.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 515-528, Oct. 1998.
(TON Oct'98)
Internet Routing Instability.
Craig Labovitz, G. Robert Malan and Farnam Jahanian.
SIGCOMM Symposium on Communications Architectures and Protocols, (Cannes, France), Sep. 1997.
(postscript).
An Analysis of Inter-Domain Topology and Route Stability.
Ramesh Govindan, Anoop Reddy.
Proceedings of the IEEE INFOCOM 1997.
(postscript).
End-to-End Routing Behavior in the Internet.
Vern Paxson.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol.5, No.5, pp. 601-615, October 1997.
(postscript)
An earlier version appeared at SIGCOMM '96.
Persistent Route Oscillations in Inter-Domain Routing.
Kannan Varadhan, Ramesh Govindan, and Deborah Estrin.
Computer Networks, Jan. 2000.
(pdf).
Also USC Tech Report CS TR 96-631, Feb. 1996,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Southern California.
(postscript).
A Safe Path Vector Protocol.
Timothy G. Griffin and Gordon Wilfong.
INFOCOM 2000.
(postscript)
Stable Internet routing without global coordination. Lixin Gao and Jennifer Rexford.
SIGMETRICS 2000.
(postscript).
An extended version appears as
AT&T Research Technical Report 991110-08, November 1999.
Policy Disputes in Path Vector Protocols.
Timothy G. Griffin, F. Bruce Shepherd, and Gordon Wilfong.
ICNP'99.
(postscript,
pdf)
An Architecture for Stable, Analyzable Internet Routing.
Ramesh Govindan, Cengiz Alaettinoglu, George Eddy, David Kessens, Satish Kumar, and WeeSan Lee.
IEEE Network Magazine, Jan-Feb 1999.
(postscript).
An Analysis of BGP Convergence Properties.
Timothy G. Griffin and Gordon Wilfong.
SIGCOMM'99.
Link to paper.
Securing the Border Gateway Routing Protocol. Bradley R. Smith and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves.
Proceedings of Global Internet, Jon Crowcroft and Henning Schulzrinne, ed., (London, England),
pp. 81--85, Nov. 1996. (postscript).
Network Topologies, Power Laws, and Hierarchy
Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit, Ramesh Govindan, Sugih Jamin, Scott Shenker, Walter Willinger.
Tech. Rep. 01-746, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, June 2001.
Inet: Internet Topology Generato
Cheng Jin, Qian Chen, Sugih Jamin.
Technical
Report CSE-TR443 -00, Department of EECS, University of Michigan, 2000.
Heuristics for Internet Map Discovery.
Ramesh Govindan and Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit.
INFOCOM 2000.
(postscript)
Also as Technical Report 99-717,
Computer Science Department, University of Southern
California, October 1999,
(postscript).
Otter: A General-Purpose Network Visualization Tool. Bradley Huffaker, Evi Nemeth and K. Claffy.
Proc. of INET, (San Jose, California), Jun. 1999.
(online version).
On Power-law relationships of the Internet Topology.
Michalis Faloutsos, Petros Faloutsos, and Christos Faloutsos.
SIGCOMM'99.
Link to paper.
On Network-Aware Clustering of Web Clients.
Balachander Krishnamurthy and Jia Wang.
SIGCOMM 2000.
(postscript).
A Passive System for Server Selection within Mirrored Resource
Environments Using AS Path Length Heuristics. Patrick R. McManus.
AppliedTheory Communications, New York, Apr. 1999.
(study link)