Re: New list Top 10 ISPs

[PETER JANSEN <peter.jansen () cw net>]

Rafi:

I admire your no-nonsense, focused approach to the IPS classification
game. But than, it is probably as accurate as all the other ratings.


Peter


Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rafi Sadowsky <rafi-nanog () meron openu ac il>
To: RJ Atkinson <rja () inet org>
CC: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>,
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Subject: Re: New list Top 10 ISPs




On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, RJ Atkinson wrote:

> At 09:47 12/06/01, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> > NetworkWorld published an article citing research from
> > Probe Research ranking the top 10 ISPs and their marketshare
> > based on Year-end (2000) revenue.
>
>         Essentially none of these sorts of analyses
> are meaningful or relevant because one can yield
> any result or ordering one wants by playing games
> with the definition of "ISP" and the basis for
> the ranking.

 Well - I think Genuity is the #1 ISP - since they use AS 1
(They got AS1 when they bought(merged in ?) BBN ) and it's quite obvious
that the ISP with the #1 Autonomous System is the best - right ? ( ;-)


    Rafi



>         Also very unclear to me how any of this
> helps folks operate their networks or is applicable
> to NANOG, unless we've become a marketing organisation
> recently...
>
> Ran