[748] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: IETF questions -- Internet growth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Vielmetti)
Wed May 29 04:18:12 1991
Date: Wed, 29 May 91 02:01 EDT
From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti)
To: solensky@animal.clearpoint.com (Frank T. Solensky)
Cc: ietf@venera.isi.edu, com-priv@uu.psi.com
In-Reply-To: solensky@animal.clearpoint.com's message of Tue, 28 May 91 16:32:57 EDT
(estimates of network number growth, varying from running out in 1994
to levelling off at 8544 total tops)
According to my Standard and Poor's Stock Guide, there are on the
order of 5000 corporations listed on the various US stock exchanges.
A dump of the .com domain I recently did shows 1787 or so registered
domains. I'm trying very hard to get a handle on what fraction of the
registered .com domains are directly on the internet, what fraction of
the registered .com domains are listed on the stock exchanges, and how
these commercial numbers have changed over the years.
If the commercialization of the internet proceeds apace, we're not
going to max out any time soon -- nets will be created and network
numbers needed whenever a business starts up. That'll eat a lot of numbers.
I would say that it's high time to breach the subject of networks
paying for the use of their numbers. For one thing, it would
encourage number conservation; people won't get any more than they
need to if they have to pay for it. The revenues thus generated could
be used to buy more memory for routing tables in the core gateways.
(half :-)
--
Edward Vielmetti, MSEN Inc. moderator, comp.archives emv@msen.com
"often those with the power to appoint will be on one side of a
controversial issue and find it convenient to use their opponent's
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