[20105] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How many ASs are out there?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Mon Oct 5 11:38:01 1998
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 11:31:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Alejandro Avella <aavella@advtech.uswest.com>
cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3616C558.2B1019C9@advtech.uswest.com>
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Alejandro Avella wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how many AS are as October of 1998. I know
> there were around 700 registered ASs in the Internet at the
> beginning of 1994. [pag 178 of Huitema-93]
The CIDR report mentions the number of ASs found in active use. One might
assume there are at least 11k+ since new ASs are being given out in the
11550's. The highest one I found in a quick search was 11554.
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