On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Jim Popovitch <jimpop@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 3:06 PM, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
In article <ee045d19-797d-4346-8793-b854e528f813@email.android.com> you write:
The balkanizing of the Net?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/11/01/how-anti-nsa-ba...
I expect we'll hear lots of pontification, quietly fading away when someone explains to the pontificators just how expensive it would be to do what they want, and ask where the money is coming from.
It would be swell if Brazil routed its Internet traffic somewhere other than Miami, for purely technical reasons of resilience and shorter routes. But that would require a cable to other places (Africa and Europe.) They can do that any time, so long as they pay for it.
I can't be the only one to have been following this 12.8TB of neat-o-ness:
-Jim P.
I wince for the copy-editor that missed the typo in this headline: http://www.bricscable.com/blog/brics-scale-black-plan-to-challenge-west/ Matt