[94371] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google wants to be your Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Smith)
Sat Jan 20 21:40:08 2007
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:56:10 +1030
From: Mark Smith <nanog@fa1c52f96c54f7450e1ffb215f29991e.nosense.org>
To: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
Cc: a.harrowell@gmail.com, tme@multicasttech.com,
rodrick.brown@gmail.com, booloo@ucsc.edu, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0701201737350.29342-100000@linuxbox.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:38:06 -0600 (CST)
Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, 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?
> >
>
> That is if you see a distinction, metaphorical or physical, between
> spambots and real users.
>
"On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Dog" (Peter Steiner, The New Yorker)
Woof woof,
Mark.
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