Bake-off Controversy

• Huge set of subtle issues

• Different designs optimized for different aspects

  • which workload

• Design versus engineering

  • eg, Chord has 408 node cache

• What sort of churn (joins, leaves)?

• What sort of failures?

• What scale?

• A very healthy process. PlanetLab still way too small.

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