[8368] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: WSJ Technology supplement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Morton)
Tue Nov 16 10:31:58 1993
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 93 16:30:00 +0100
From: Dave Morton <Dave.Morton@ecrc.de>
To: Dave.Morton@ecrc.de, stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, marten@ripen.net
>> 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.
Well I'm not so sure about Tunisia, sure it's Africa but in the absence
of seperate authority for Africa apart from the Internic and RIPE I believe
that the RIPE NCC caters for their needs right now. So that's why the
end up being counted as Europe. BTW: Europe ends in Vladivostok !!!
>> 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.
Point taken.
>> 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
Mad prediction - but - since certain parties in Europe no longer regard
IP as taboo anymore you may even see larger growth rates in the future.
We've a lot of catching up to do... :-
Dave
PS: Naturally I wouldn't dream of mentioning who these parties might be.
