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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 <[email protected]> To: RJ Atkinson <[email protected]> CC: Sean Donelan <[email protected]>, [email protected] Sender: [email protected] Reply-to: [email protected] Delivered-to: [email protected] Delivered-to: [email protected] Delivered-to: [email protected] 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 > >
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