If you are a big corporation, and it is 1995, how likely is it that you'll
utilize bgp for advertising your address space to the internet?
Thanks,
Michael Sabino
Big? Very.
Matthew Kaufman
Well, we got AS1312 sometime before 1996 (the *last changed* timestamp is
19960207), that sort of implies that 1311 other organizations were grabbing AS
numbers before that. And since an AS number has no real use for anything other
than BGP, that implies some 1,300 organizations doing BGP in the 1995
timeframe.
Look to see who got the first 1000 or 1500 or so AS numbers, that's who was
doing BGP back then.
The actual number would be considerably smaller as there were large
(for some definition of large) block assignments of ASNs <~1000 or so
to various academic networking entities such as NSFNet and regional
networks as well as other Federal/Military networking organisations.
-dorian
The actual number would be considerably smaller as there were large
(for some definition of large) block assignments of ASNs <~1000 or so
to various academic networking entities such as NSFNet and regional
networks as well as other Federal/Military networking organisations.-dorian
Well, for one data point, I was issued 3492 around Spring of 1994.
I myself inferred that he meant "large end-user corporations whose primary
line of business was *not* being a network provider".
Cheers,
-- jra
Large end-user companies generally multihomed by that time, and you
generally did that by BGP4 at the time (post-1994), and before that
BGP3, and before that EGP, and before that... well, there was little
"commercial ISPness" other than NSFNet connectivity and the regional
networks back then so multihoming was somewhat of a moot point.
Thank you again, UUNet/Alternet and PSI!