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...
Issues related to competition and the business environment appear to
be within NANOG's charter.
The NANOG charter has included
"maintaining a competitive and level business environment."
since November 2000.
It seems to follow that measurements of the competitive and business
environment would be on-topic.
I understand some technologists prefer to ignore competition and
the realities of business and concentrate on ways to post HTML.