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To: John Biddle who wrote (2422)	1/4/2000 3:09:00 AM
From: Dan B.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5853

Well, both results can be correct at once, unless he said the 100 day doublings occurred consistently(or on average)for that full two year period, which I would doubt. I suspect he limited that hundred day doubling statement to a specific shorter period of time past. Or too, was he refering to capacity doublings rather than usage? The link you provided itself quotes him as estimating much slower growth in usage than those 100 day doublings you mention. Dan B

To: John Biddle who wrote (2422)	1/4/2000 8:45:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 5853

John, I think that going forward all Internet traffic should be measured in terms of GLOCs. A GLOC is a unit of measurement which I coined and offered to George here about a year or so ago. GLOC stands for Gilder Library of Congress. What do you think? Would anyone here hazard a guess as to how many [x]bytes constitute a GLOC? Limit your assessments to text-based information only. I think I'll get started on the RFC... Regards, Frank Coluccio

To: John Biddle who wrote (2422)	1/8/2000 12:29:00 PM
From: George Gilder	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 5853

I am afraid that I do not have the GTR in which I discussed this at hand, but to begin with, it was 8 petabits (not petabytes) which gets a factor of 8 out of there. I do not believe that Internet traffic is generally doubling every 100 days. This was a John Sidgemore claim based on business traffic on UUNet. He has since fudged it a bit. I usually assume that Internet traffic is rising 1000fold every five to seven years (again the rationale is in the GTR about six months ago; I will check it). In any case, such adjustments will reconcile the various estimates (which are necessarily guesstimates). --GG