[ih] Ingrid Burrington on North Virginia

Johan Helsingius julf at julf.com
Mon Jan 11 12:03:26 PST 2016


On 11/01/16 20:40, Jack Haverty wrote:

> If you accept Vint Cerf's definition of the Internet - paraphrasing as
> "communications between devices using TCP/IP" - how does someone measure
> that traffic?

I am not sure I agree with his definition. To me, "Internet" traffic, as
opposed to local LAN traffic, has to cross between networks - so to
be really strict, between AS's.

> Back in the 80s when the Internet was young, we didn't have the
> capability to take such measurements with any confidence of accuracy or
> completeness.  When did that change.....?

https://atlas.ripe.net/

	Julf




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