No one mentions that Southern Cross has just come on stream, so I'd expect the current situation of apparently poor international connectivity to Australia to improve over the next year or so. As Chris Chaundy said, the way forward is if some independent group (e.g./i.e. APNIC) ran the root server, if it were to be available, and multihomed to the providers who had their own independent international connections to the US and the rest of AsiaPac. philip -- At 14:20 21/11/00 -0800, Sean Donelan wrote:
In addition the the previously reported cable cut, several folks have written about a fire at an electrical substation cut power for much of eastern Sydney, the location of a major Telstra server facility. As far as I can tell, the fire had little affect on Telstra's servers because backup generators were in place.
Although Telstra is the dominant ISP (and telephone company) in Australia, there are other ISPs using other facilities which were not affected by the cable cut.
So, if a root server was placed in Australia, to whom's network should it be attached. Would OPTUS and Telstra cooperate and jointly provide connectivity and diversity? Or is the most connected place in the asia-pacific region still the west coast of the US?