----- Original Message ----- > From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu>
> 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. I myself inferred that he meant "large end-user corporations whose primary line of business was *not* being a network provider". Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
