[70228] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Wed May 5 16:13:33 2004
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 15:12:55 -0500
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040505194708.5520410E46@gateway.wvi.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Jeff Shultz wrote:
> So instead of trying to determine what percentage of internet traffic
> is junk, why don't we set up categories (I saw someone make a start at
> it a couple of messages back) and figure out what percentage of traffic
> fits under each category. We can come up with our own opinions as to
> which of those categories is junk.
>
> So I guess we would start with stuff that stands as a major category:
> e-mail, nntp, ftp, telnet, ssh, web... and then you start doing a lot
> of subcategorizations. I imagine it would start looking like a
> hierarchical org chart.
I imagine there are places that already produce statistics by protocol,
and I am reluctant to endorse a program that says one protocol is junk
and another is not.
I would prefer (but have no clue as to how to do) a catagorization
that has handles like "business transactions", "student research",
"warehouse transfers", "recreational", and so on until what ever
is left is counted as "junk" or some ephemistically similar term.
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