On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 09:56:01PM -0500, Pickett, Mclean wrote: mclean How about mapping BGP info to Per Capita Income. I imagine you might see a better correlation there. actually, you don't. also note that it's not the same kind of metric, because there is no 'whole pie' to cut up -- you're dealing with per-country means. also note that per capita income really isn't wildly different in the US versus other Internet-using countries -- but brad obliged you anyway, capita income is in here: http://www.caida.org/~bhuffake/temp/temp.png i'm not gonna add it to the real page because the type of metric is fundamentally different enough to be confusing, and it doesn't add any additional insight. k McLean -----Original Message----- From: k claffy [mailto:kc@ipn.caida.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 9:46 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Cc: elfcore@caida.org Subject: bgp geopolitical analysis (warning: zero operational content. or so.) one of caida's elves (brad) did a cool visualization of demographic measures of Internet resources, stratified by continent with substratification by country (with help of CIA factbook, RouteViews, and NetGeo). http://www.caida.org/analysis/geopolitical/bgp2country/ measures: geographic area, human population, GDP, phones-in-use, ASes, ISPs, prefixes, addresses.... nothing overwhelmingly surprising here but compelling nonetheless (yes, it turns out data can be both) k // things are not what they seem to be, nor are they otherwise. -lankavatara sutra //