[165019] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How big is the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Tauber)
Thu Aug 15 18:04:47 2013
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Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 18:04:19 -0400
From: Tony Tauber <ttauber@1-4-5.net>
To: Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au>, sean@donelan.com
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
All this goes to the point that the original question was poorly worded and
I daresay ill-conceived.
There's no "one number" or "one metric", much less "one definition".
It all depends on what the real question is that you're trying to answer
and why.
There is plenty of room for study; though it's necessary to start with some
circumscribed question.
Of course the answers you may get won't likely then be readily applicable
to answering some other question that may come in the future.
Tony
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au> wrote:
> You'd almost think this was a technology mailing list given some of the
> answers... (ohh.. wait!)
>
> How about this - the size of the Internet is just short of 3 billion.
>
> 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.
>
> Scott
>
