[9912] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: bill text draft 2: Telecommunications Competition Act (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Cook)
Wed Jan 26 17:02:05 1994
From: cook@path.net (Gordon Cook)
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 21:51:03 GMT
Apparently-To: <com-priv@psi.com>
Ittai wrote:
The numbers, in fact,
demonstrate that the predominant growth in the Internet, at least as
seen from within United States, is growth in the NSFNET Backbone
Service and not the CIX
Well Ittai I won't pretend to understand the nuances of the CIX
discussion here.
But when you look at that remarkable growth in YOUR backbone traffic, I
could help but be struck by the quote from Lymnan Chapin on page 16 of the
January 94 Telecommunications magazine:
"A recent study of traffic on the NSFnet backbone, for example turned
up the astonishing fact that just over 10% of the bits running back and
forth belonged to MUDs (Multi User Dungeons)"
Well now, latest statement I have heard from Al Weis is 10 terabytes
a month. So that is one terabyte a month of MUDs financed by the US
taxpayer at a cost of roughly $100,005.00 a month ( one tenth of your
current monthly payment from NSF.)
Just goes to show that ya never know what is driving the engines of
growth now-a-days. <smile>
