On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Karst Starkenburg wrote:
Power laws are measurable, and somewhat related to the "fractal" nature. According to the measurement described in the paper, the Internet topology is, in fact, fractal.
There is no such thing as 'the Internet topology'. There are many topologies and protocols. Some aspects are fractal, some are not. If you're talking strictly of the connectivity diagram, it is certainly self-similar (which would account for the power law, I made reference to a similar power law, m/4, that is used in biology related to branching) and space filing, but that doesn't make it self similar enough to qualify for 'fractal' in the strictest sense of the word. Different branches, while they are both branches, wouldn't share enough common sub-structures to have similar fractal dimensions, and it still retain any convenience from a global perspective. ____________________________________________________________________ Before a larger group can see the virtue of an idea, a smaller group must first understand it. "Stranger Suns" George Zebrowski The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------