(as played at the conference to the tune of 'my favorite things')

Route aggregation and increasing payload
Multiway peering and `net-friendly C Code
Boxes that filter on source-routed pings
These are a few of my fav'rite `Net things

Multicast native and option-free packets
V-LANs that don't break and short A.S. path lengths
End-to-end measures with meaning to bring
These are a few of my fav'rite `Net things

[chorus melody]
When my link's toast
When the SPAM grows
When my thruput hits ground
i simply remember my fav'rite `Net things
and then i don't feeeel sooo down

Far reaching coverage and routing that's stable
Aggregate flow stats and Mice that are able
to back off when shown that the Net's being zinged
These are a few of my fav'rite `Net things

Pictures of structure and metrics with insight
Caching web content and NOCs open all nite
Code that can SIMulate huge I G P's
These are a few of my fav'rite `Net things

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When my cache quits
Or backhoes hit
Fiber underground
i simply remember my fav'rite `Net things
and then i don't feeeel sooo down

Visualizations of virtual networks
Discovering ``features'' in new I O S quirks
Vendor built stacks that respect T C P
These are a few of my fav'rite `Net things

SNMP tools like MRTG
KNOW-ing how to UNconfig P.V.C.'s
Measurement boxes that sniff O C 3
These are a few of my fav'rite `Net things

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when D N S freaks
when my routes leak
when i lose a peer
i try to remember my favorite 'Net things
and THEN go buy More `Net gear

Late nite `net browsing for Amazon's new books
Potent search engines that find the best web nooks
Fixing the damage in folks' B G P
These are a few of my fav'rite `Net things

Cool network geeks and their company perks
Analysis tools in which true insight lurks
Stable peer sessions and route symmetry
These are a few of my fav'rite `Net things

[chorus melody]
When my page stalls
Or they pass laws
to inVADE free `Net speech
i simply remember that it could be worse
at least there're still sites i can reach

Equipment donations and I.S.P. data
Email from parents and browsers post-beta
Drawing M-BONE or cache TOPE-all-oGY
These are a few of my fav'rite `Net things

Routers that do RED and balanced net loading
Video apps with hierarCHiCal coding
Raw packet traces to DIE-ssect and see
all of my absolute fav'rite `Net things

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When my APP-let hogs
Or smurf stuff fills up logs
When my keyboard gets wet
i try to remember that most of these things
We really still DON'T... get yet

Multi-mode fiber with an optical splitter
B G P sessions conFIGGED not to litter
Reverting from A T M back to I P
These are a few of my fav'rite `Net things

Stock trading web sites that haven't yet crashed
M-P 3 players with plenty of flash
having my cell phone talk TO my P C
These are a few of my fav'rite `Net things

When popUPS leap
when copy-RIGHTS creep
into my browser's cache
i simply remember that S D M I
will most likely buuurn & crash

Linux and open and freeBSD
Persistence in T C P's H T T P
Finally remembering my P G P key
These are a few of my fav'rite `Net things

G-trace and skitter; coral, C flow D,
converting my CDs all to M-P 3
workload profiling that helps I.S.P's
These are a few of my fav'rite `Net things

[chorus melody]
When the SPAM stings
or TIME WAITs bring
servers to the ground
i simply remember my fav'rite `Net things
and then i don't feeeel sooo down