Olivier, Yes, CA*NET and the CERN traffic to NSFNET were still on the T1 in November. We did register some data losses with the T3 traffic-by-network data in early November, but I suspect that most of the differences that you noted were due to the fact that much of the international traffic did not cross the T3 backbone. Even though the Country report is explicitly labelled as representing only the T3 traffic, I can understand the likelihood of misinterpretation and have removed the report from nic.merit.edu. The upcoming December report should be complete, and I don't expect any problems. If you find something that doesn't make sense, please let me know, and we'll try to track it down. Susan Horvath Merit/NSFNET Information Services ------- Forwarded Message

I am very sorry to appear as a trouble maker once more but I have very seri ous doubts about the accuracy of the traffic figures below with respect to the countries served by the CERN-Cornell T1 line in november 1992.

With regard to October 92, we measures 34 GBytes for traffic US<-->NL for example, which is twice as much as what is indicated below, and I can give other examples, e.g. Italy, Switzerland, Austria where the statistics below appear to be seriously wrong, i.e. by a factor 2 at least!

The only explanation I can offer is that the CERN-Cornell line was still connected to the NSFnet T1 backbone last month, as was also the case for CA*NET, which probably explain why CANADA is less active than Iceland, whereas I remember Canada ranking 2nd some time ago!

I personally have nothing against Iceland or Lapeland, but I hope that the december 92 figure will be more accurate, following the dismantling of the T1 backbone on december 2.

Since any traffic statistics, in particular the intercontinental ones, may be exploited for purposes other than purely technical ones, I would very much appreciate that due mention of the possible inaccuracy of the traffic figures for some European countries be explicitely and publicly mentioned.

With my advance thanks.

Let me also take this opportunity to wish you all a merry xmas and a very happy new year.

Olivier

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