[118462] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP/VPN's to China?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Edwards)
Thu Oct 22 07:39:12 2009
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:38:11 +0100 (BST)
From: Chris Edwards <chris@eng.gla.ac.uk>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4AE027F8.3040809@evaristesys.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Alex Balashov wrote:
| Understood. I guess the angle I was going more for was: Is this actually
| practical to do in a country with almost as many Internet users as the US has
| people?
|
| I had always assumed that broad policies and ACLs work in China, but most
| forms of DPI and traffic pattern analysis aren't practical simply for
| computational feasibility reasons. Not unless the system were highly
| distributed.
Perhaps they only need make an example of a few, and thus introduce an
element of fear for everyone else.
