[165008] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How big is the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jorge Amodio)
Thu Aug 15 13:23:37 2013
In-Reply-To: <CAJvB4tmc0yMJgMkD4tFe3OApz-QPFzNCcHY9X0p-kB9X14+euA@mail.gmail.com>
From: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 12:23:14 -0500
To: Blake Dunlap <ikiris@gmail.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
What Congress ? We have to be very careful with this the ITU may complain th=
e we are taking a US centric approach to the subject and the EU will debate f=
or months on the definition of "Library" then ICANN will initiate a PDP to f=
igure how to associate Library with Congress after the SSAC says it is safe t=
o do so, and after 10 years of public consultation and 50 conferences in exo=
tic places we may find that the definition is outdated and the UN will call a=
panel of experts to devise why the Internet became several orders of magnit=
ude bigger.
At that time Vint will be sending 4D tweets via the galactic network from Pl=
uto
-Jorge
On Aug 15, 2013, at 11:55 AM, Blake Dunlap <ikiris@gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree, Librarys of Congress / second is the standard notation for
> bandwidth.
>=20
> -Blake
>=20
>=20
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au> wrote:
>=20
>> You'd almost think this was a technology mailing list given some of the
>> answers... (ohh.. wait!)
>>=20
>> How about this - the size of the Internet is just short of 3 billion.
>>=20
>> That's the number of people that have access to it. To me, that's a far
>> more telling number than anything around IP address or Exabytes of data.
>>=20
>> Scott
>>=20
