Abstract

Network architecture revolves around the concept of fitting the design of a network to its purpose; of asking the question, "what network will best fit these needs?" A part of fitting network design to requirements is the problem of complexity, an idea often informally measured using intuition and subjective experience. When would adding a particular protocol, policy, or configuration be "too complex?" This document suggests a series of continuums along which network complexity might be measured. No suggestions are made on how to measure complexity for each of these continuums; this is left for future documents.

Authors

Alvaro Retana (aretana@cisco.com)
Russ White (russw@riw.us)

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