Re: what's on the Internet

[Mark Laubach <laubach at iag.hp.com>]

    From:  Craig Partridge <craig at NNSC.NSF.NET>
    Subject:  what's on the Internet

    ...    

        My personal view is that you are on the Internet if there is an
    all IP-links path that can be traced from your host to the NSFNET
    backbone or one of its regionals.

    ..

I guess the question I have, since I jumped in the middle of this, is
what you are trying to measure?  I like the idea as presented earlier
by Philippe Prindeville by using ftp to the NIC as one firewall. If
you want to measure people who have mailboxes on machines which speak
SMTP and IP (within your all IP-linked internet), then that's a
somewhat larger population.  If you want to measure people who are on
machines which speak IP and are participating in one of the internets
reached by your all IP-links model, then that is probably the largest
set.  We have all three sizes within HP.  I suspect the other
companies/organizations do also.

Mark