The immediate goal is to approximate the total number of WWW "users"
(and while we are at it find out where they are) so we can measure
the growth of the Web. Since we can't measure actual users it seems
that the number of IP addresses is a "good enough" metric for tracking
growth (it's much better than NSF net packet counts anyway).
In the future I would like to add in more stats and automate the whole
process. I posted a proposal about this a while back and only got a couple
of interested people so I figured I would start small. When I get some
free time I'll work on the full proposal some more, suggestions are
welcome.
--sanders