IPv4 BGP Geopolitical Analysis
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The worldwide distribution of Internet resources and address space is highly non-
uniform.
We present an analysis comparing five demographic measures
against three measures of Internet resources, stratified by continent with
substratification by country.
We found that two continents and one country consume a much larger share
of Internet resource allocation than predicted by their demographic measures
of size.
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[ Factbook]
[ BGP]
[ RouteViews]
[ NetGeo]
Metrics:
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area - total geographic area
(land mass)
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population - total population
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GDP - Gross Domestic Product
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telephones - primary telephone
lines in use
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ISPs - Internet Service
Providers, companies that provide Internet connectivity for their
customers
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ASes - autonomous systems, the
units of router policy
(either single networks or groups of networks) representing a single
administrative entity and controlled by a common network administration.
The Internet is a collection of ASes.
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prefixes - slices of Internet
address space which can be independently routed
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addresses - the absolute number
of addresses that are inside of a country's set of prefixes
Notes:
Code:
References:
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[BGP]
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K. Lougheed and Y. Rekhter.,
RFC 1106, "Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)"
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[Factbook]
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CIA -- The World Factbook |
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[RouteView]
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Meyer, D. University of Oregon Route Views Project. |
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[NetGeo] |
Moore, D., R. Periakaruppan, J. Donohoe, and K.C. Claffy.
"Where in the World is netgeo.caida.org?" |
Acknowledgements
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation
under Grant Numbers 9996248 and 9211092.
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Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)