New list Top 10 ISPs

Tue Jun 12 16:18:00 UTC 2001

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 <rafi-nanog at meron.openu.ac.il>
To: RJ Atkinson <rja at inet.org>
CC: Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com>,
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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
>
>