[169188] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Everyone should be deploying BCP 38! Wait, they are ...."
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Tue Feb 18 14:50:37 2014
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 14:48:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Bell" <me@geordish.org>
> That article is terrible.
>
> Looking at the stats provided, only 2582 unique AS's were tested.
> http://www.cidr-report.org/as2.0/#General_Status has over 46k AS's
> currently in the routing table.
>
> This means they have tested around 5% of the AS's on the Internet.
Well, it did strike me, when someone cited the same data last week, that
it seemed an awful lot of stew to make from that few oysters.
I suppose it does depend on what percentage of end nodes are subsumed
by those AS's, but there's no authoritative way to know that from on top.
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
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