conrad@rockenhaus.com:
I did want to note one thing about these big ASes... sure, they may be big ASes, but they are still lacking in one major area - Exits.
we where talking about AS awareness in the context of traffic accounting for relay operators, feels like you jumped to another topic - namely overall AS diversity or AS diversity specifically for exit traffic? (which is fine, I just want to make sure I understood you correctly)
OVH has almost 4.5 Gbit/s of relay bandwidth available within the AS. However, if you search for exits, that rapidly drops to just under 750 mbit/s.
When talking about AS diversity, absolute numbers don't tell much unless you put them in context to other absolute numbers or you switch to overall fraction.
A little off topic, but it just amazes me how much exit capacity these sites actually have, but people aren't willing to sign up for services whose TOS permits running an exit (or can't afford it), so they run a relay at an overly saturated site.
there aren't many ASes that hold a bigger exit probability fraction than OVH SAS (AS16276) - currently just 2, so I wouldn't agree to "OVH is lacking exits when compared to other ASes"