"End-to-End Routing Behavior in the Internet," by Vern Paxson A retrospective review
James F. Kurose, Craig Partridge, Ellen Witte Zegura · 2006
•• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • The 2006 ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award has been given to Vern Paxson for his paper, “End-to-End Routing Behavior in the Internet,” published in the 1996 proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference. The award “recognizes a paper published 10 to 12 years in the past … that is deemed to be an outstanding paper whose contents are still a vibrant and useful contribution today.” In this review, we try to explain why we picked this paper for the award. (In that light, we should note there were a number of outstanding papers that were strong contenders for the award).