How many ASs are out there?

Mon Oct 5 15:31:57 UTC 1998

On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Alejandro Avella wrote:

> Can anyone tell me how many AS are as October of 1998. I know
> there were around 700 registered ASs in the Internet at the
> beginning of 1994. [pag 178 of Huitema-93]

The CIDR report mentions the number of ASs found in active use.  One might
assume there are at least 11k+ since new ASs are being given out in the 
11550's.  The highest one I found in a quick search was 11554.

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