[94365] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google wants to be your Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Sat Jan 20 20:21:27 2007
In-Reply-To: <a2b2d0480701201336x687e749cjf7d2c20a3638e7d0@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "Rodrick Brown" <rodrick.brown@gmail.com>, booloo@ucsc.edu,
nanog@merit.edu
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 20:20:24 -0500
To: "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jan 20, 2007, at 4:36 PM, Alexander Harrowell wrote:
> Marshall wrote:
> Those sorts of percentages are common in Pareto distributions (AKA
> Zipf's law AKA "the 80-20 rule").
> With the Zipf's exponent typical of web usage and video watching, I
> would predict something closer to
> 10% of the users consuming 50% of the usage, but this estimate is not
> that unrealistic.
>
> I would predict that these sorts of distributions will continue as
> long as humans are the primary consumers of
> bandwidth.
>
> Regards
> Marshall
>
> That's until the spambots inherit the world, right?
I tend to take the long view.
