That notwithstanding, it's stupid to send traffic to/from one of the large $your_region/country incumbents via $not_your_region/country. It's just not good Internet. You make enough money already. Be a good netizen. It pays more in the long run and that's all you're really after for your shareholders anyway, right? On 2013-09-08, at 11:54 AM, Derek Andrew <Derek.Andrew@usask.ca> wrote:
The topic of Canadian network sovereignty has been part of the Canadian conscience since the failure of CANNET back in the 1970s.
Canadians citizens, on Canadian soil, already supply feeds directly to the NSA. Rerouting Internet traffic would make no difference.
On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@mykolab.com>wrote:
A Canadian ISP colleague of mine suggested that the NANOG constituency might be interested in this, given some recent 'revelations', so I forward it here for you perusal.
"Preliminary analysis of more than 25,000 traceroutes reveals a phenomenon we call ‘boomerang routing’ whereby Canadian-to-Canadian internet transmissions are routinely routed through the United States. Canadian originated transmissions that travel to a Canadian destination via a U.S. switching centre or carrier are subject to U.S. law - including the USA Patriot Act and FISAA. As a result, these transmissions expose Canadians to potential U.S. surveillance activities – a violation of Canadian network sovereignty."
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/media_law_prof_blog/2013/09/routing-interne...
Cheers,
- ferg
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