On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 08:14:20PM +0100, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote: [snip]
On 1 dec 2008, at 15.08, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: [snip]
I don't think any IXP can become a significant player on the Internet today by only attracting participants from the country in question. The Internet is not bound by political borders. (Usually. :)
Despite the huge amount of "content which transcends the language barrier" [tip of the hat wbn], it is worth noting that there is a non-trivial amount of language-/culture-specific traffic that doesn't need or want to traverse globally (viz massive IXes & large xTTH deplyoments in otherwise 'small' countries). Sometimes that maps near to the political boundaries. Joe [by all means, do not take this as a SPoF endorsement] -- RSUC / GweepNet / Spunk / FnB / Usenix / SAGE