How about mapping BGP info to Per Capita Income. I imagine you might see a better correlation there. 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 //