[98273] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Routing public traffic across county boundaries in Europe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Fri Jul 27 13:43:58 2007
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:35:18 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070727041435.GA9362@capsaicin.mamane.lu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On July 27, 2007 at 06:14 lionel@mamane.lu (Lionel Elie Mamane) wrote:
>
> Also, I've heard that Canada had (maybe still has) this legislation
> forbidding you to route intra-Canadian *telephone* traffic through
> another country. Something about else nobody would build a
> intercontinental coast-to-coast Canadian network, would just send
> long-distance traffic to the USA, go to other coast and send it back
> to Canada and being this dependent on a foreign country, that's bad.
OTOH, the spirit of the Bretton Woods conferences at the end of WWII
on preventing a repeat was that such critical industrial
interdependencies were fundamental to dissuading nations from going to
war on one another. So far the idea has worked pretty well, exceptions
excepted.
Obviously YMMV.
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