[165018] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How big is the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Aug 15 17:23:23 2013
To: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Aug 2013 20:48:53 -0000."
<CE328C6F.1C86%wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 17:21:35 -0400
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 20:48:53 -0000, Warren Bailey said:
> I neglected to say one additional thing which I think may be worth reading
> before replying. I have always held the opinion that internet traffic
> isn't internet traffic until it hits the Internet, which I defined as two
> or more autonomous systems functioning on their own but possessing the
So bittorrent packets from my computer to some other computer that also
happens to belong to a Comcast subscriber aren't Internet traffic? But
other packets to another Comcast subscriber that happen to cross an AS
boundary are?
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