These include interviews with people, lists of ISPs, and the like. When we know of organized sources of information on such topics, we usually include pointers to them. We use both schematic diagrams and geographical maps in addition to text and tables in order to make these comparisons. Then we look inside the Internet , considering its hosts worldwide and in the United States . We also include categorizations of Internet hosts by type of organization, such as commercial, educational, etc.
Traffic is a popular Internet subject.
Unfortunately, there is little direct data about it. However, we do have and we include some data about latencies and IP paths . We examine the World Wide Web , showing its growth, graphing when it passed Gopher and FTP, and showing how WWW traffic grew. We graph the growth of Internet Service Providers , and we include a taxonomy and discussion of how ISPs, NAPs, and other Internet entities are related and now money flows among them, including some problems of getting it to flow enough. We present a very brief overview of the organizations involved in Internet operations, specifications, policy, governance, etc.