On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 05:32:34PM -0700, k claffy mooed:
richard; sorry for latency on this one
but might be worth reading andre's: "Internet expansion, refinement and churn", http://www.caida.org/outreach/papers/2002/EGR/ which shows that most prefixes in the table come from large providers. among.andre.conclusions (there is quite a bit in the paper):
On a related note, from a paper we're about to submit to the Internet Measurement Workshop, see: http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/~dga/aspathfrac.eps for a breakdown of prefix by origin AS. It's fairly clear where most of the prefixes come from.. (hi, UUNET). -Dave -- work: dga@lcs.mit.edu me: dga@pobox.com MIT Laboratory for Computer Science http://www.angio.net/ I do not accept unsolicited commercial email. Do not spam me.