On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 04:21:59PM -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Thu, 12 May 2011 14:53:53 CDT, Michael Sabino said: > > If you are a big corporation, and it is 1995, how likely is it that you'll > > utilize bgp for advertising your address space to the internet? > > Well, we got AS1312 sometime before 1996 (the *last changed* timestamp is > 19960207), that sort of implies that 1311 other organizations were grabbing AS > numbers before that. And since an AS number has no real use for anything > other > than BGP, that implies some 1,300 organizations doing BGP in the 1995 > timeframe.
The actual number would be considerably smaller as there were large (for some definition of large) block assignments of ASNs <~1000 or so to various academic networking entities such as NSFNet and regional networks as well as other Federal/Military networking organisations. -dorian
