[1627] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
network usage stats seemed to have changed dramatically??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Cook)
Sat Dec 7 16:41:43 1991
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: 7 Dec 91 16:17:36 EST (Sat)
From: cook@tmn.com (Gordon Cook)
<<MESSAGE from>> Gordon Cook 07-DEC-91 16:17
cook@tmn
Well we shall see if this gets lost in the flurry of traffic from the new
ANS announcement, but I have a question about the NSFnet pie chart on Page
22 of the November 1991 Telecommunications. It is listed as a six month
average breakdown of traffic by application from March through Aug of 1991.
File transfer is listed as 47% and email as 7 percent.
This mix is totally skewed from any that I have seen before in the past 16
months that I have been observing. As best I can remember file transfer
and email have always been within 2 or 3 per centage points of each other
in use varying from about 22 to 29%.
Is this pie chart correct? If it is correct what {_}ihappened all of a
sudden? Is file transfer still defined as what it always was? I'm
thinking that if you put the news groups under file transfer that might
exlain the difference???
