[165021] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How big is the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Conlen)
Thu Aug 15 19:46:18 2013
From: Michael Conlen <mike@conlen.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAGQUKcdjTVqX-POebUUQYDorPvX6ynZCZZKB9tEs5_cJGuSFLA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 18:07:04 -0400
To: Tony Tauber <ttauber@1-4-5.net>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
One could say that the size of the internet is, up to isomorphism, 2; =
very precise but as useful as you predict.=20
--
Mike
On Aug 15, 2013, at 6:04 PM, Tony Tauber <ttauber@1-4-5.net> wrote:
> 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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> Tony
>=20
>=20
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:30 PM, 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
