Because the ABFAB infrastructure requires each party in the transaction to have been authenticated to the infrastructure, a certain performance penalty is incurred the first time the parties engage in the infrastructure. Each party's successful authentication consists of 6-8 RADIUS authentication round-trips between themselves and the APC, as well as any intermediates.
The below performance statistics for use by NREN and Trust Router operators illustrate these penalties to allow them the penalties of these cumulative round-trips, in order to set expectations for Moonshot authentication requests for the operators of services on their trust router infrastructures.
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