North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: How many ISPs are out there?
Unless the network is lying to me again, [email protected] said: > > well, once upon a time.... you weren't really considered an "ISP" > unless you were able to play the BGP game. So an ASN once was an > hallmark of an I{A,S}P. Things change so I expect it is much harder > to figure out, externally, what an I{A,S}P is than it used to be. > I still use the ASN token as a discriminator. YMMV Additionally, you need to subtract out the ones that have gone out of business. I was looking thru the ASN list and right off the top found about 5 that I recognized as defunct within the first 5000. (ok, ok, 5 / 5000... maybe you don't need to subtract them out after all) AlanC {stunned that we just got an ASN in the 2xxxxx range}
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