Internet myths relevant to engineering (about data)

workload: (besides basic traffic growth fiction)
level and nature of fragmented traffic
increase in flows as bandwidth grows
private addresses in core
mice vs elephants
prevalence of encrypted passwords
applications can be identified (much less controlled)
performance:
DoS attacks affect only large sites
geography not correlated with latency
DNS system performs well
single router can't trash the Internet
topology:
Internet topologies, object sizes follow power laws
routing:
routing tables reflect Internet topology
intra-country traffic stays there
AS path length is decreasing
small providers cause all the churn
why so many?  no real measurement...