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Re: How many ISPs are out there?
From: Alan Clegg <alan () clegg com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 07:08:02 -0400
Unless the network is lying to me again, bmanning () vacation karoshi com said:
well, once upon a time.... you weren't really considered an "ISP" unless you were able to play the BGP game. So an ASN once was an hallmark of an I{A,S}P. Things change so I expect it is much harder to figure out, externally, what an I{A,S}P is than it used to be. I still use the ASN token as a discriminator. YMMV
Additionally, you need to subtract out the ones that have gone out of business. I was looking thru the ASN list and right off the top found about 5 that I recognized as defunct within the first 5000. (ok, ok, 5 / 5000... maybe you don't need to subtract them out after all) AlanC {stunned that we just got an ASN in the 2xxxxx range}
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- How many ISPs are out there? Roeland Meyer (Jul 23)
- Re: How many ISPs are out there? michael (Jul 23)
- Re: How many ISPs are out there? mike harrison (Jul 24)
- Re: How many ISPs are out there? Adam Rothschild (Jul 23)
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- Re: How many ISPs are out there? Joe Rhett (Jul 24)
- Re: How many ISPs are out there? Bill Woodcock (Jul 24)
- Re: How many ISPs are out there? bmanning (Jul 24)
- Re: How many ISPs are out there? Philip Smith (Jul 24)
- Re: How many ISPs are out there? bmanning (Jul 24)
- Re: How many ISPs are out there? Alan Clegg (Jul 24)
- Re: How many ISPs are out there? Alan Clegg (Jul 24)
- Re: How many ISPs are out there? Geoff Huston (Jul 24)
- Re: How many ISPs are out there? Joe Rhett (Jul 24)
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- RE: How many ISPs are out there? Mark Radabaugh - Amplex (Jul 24)
- Re: How many ISPs are out there? michael (Jul 23)
- RE: How many ISPs are out there? up (Jul 24)
- Re: How many ISPs are out there? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 24)
- ISPs with AS's WAS Re: How many ISPs are out there? up (Jul 24)
- Re: ISPs with AS's WAS Re: How many ISPs are out there? William Allen Simpson (Jul 24)
- Re: ISPs with AS's WAS Re: How many ISPs are out there? up (Jul 24)