[8365] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: WSJ Technology supplement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dick St.Peters)
Tue Nov 16 10:04:32 1993
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 93 09:53:31 EST
From: stpeters@spare-parts.crd.ge.com (Dick St.Peters)
To: Dave.Morton@ecrc.de
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Reply-To: <stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com>
> Here a more recent count from Marten Terpstra, RIPE NCC Amsterdam:
Thanks Dave. I had the September RIPE count but nothing more recent.
The RIPE count includes Iceland, which I left out; I wasn't sure whether
it should be counted as part of "Europe". RIPE also includes Tunisia,
which I'm sure isn't Europe ... but it's count is zero now anyway.
> Note also that a large number of nets have been allocated but are
> not yet reachable (i.e. only internal connectivity) but these are
> candidates for future expansion as well. This is probably less the
> case in the US I'd guess.
Actually, it's not. There are many internal corporate nets here as
well. Ours is the class A network number 3; we'd make a sizeable
addition to the host counts of the US, Europe, and Japan if our net
were published. In my host counts, I allotted all the .com addresses
to the US, and I know that's wrong. I also gave the US all the .net
and .org addresses. I tried to make all the mistakes in a way that
was counter to my point ... to make my European count as conservative
as possible.
> Please find below the RIPE DNS hoctcount for October 1993.
>
> - we have reached 500,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe,
In case the point is still lost on anybody, the entire Internet did not
reach 500,000 hosts until the July '91 host count.
In October '91, the entire Internet was 617,000, Europe 104,000, so Europe
has passed where the US was 2 years ago. Europe doubled in the last year,
the US count went up about 70%.
I remember seeing postings to com-priv in the recent past from someone at
the WSJ; whoever you are, go wake up your editors.
--
Dick St.Peters
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
