10.21986/S6.CAIDAC65VCAIDA, UCSDCAIDA UCSD2011DatasetInternet AS topologyInternet measurementautonomous systemCAIDA UCSD2011EnglishCAIDA ACCEPTABLE USE AGREEMENT for PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE DATASETSAS Rank is CAIDA's ranking of Autonomous Systems (AS) (which approximately map to Internet Service Providers) and organizations (Orgs) (which are a collection of one or more ASes). This ranking is derived from topological data collected by CAIDA's Archipelago Measurement Infrastructure and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing data collected by the Route Views Project and RIPE NCC. ASes and Orgs are ranked by their customer cone size, which is the number of their direct and indirect customers.