[165581] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Surveillance and Boomerang Routing: A Call for Canadian
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Mon Sep 9 15:16:21 2013
From: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
In-Reply-To: <522E138E.9040809@bogus.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 15:16:05 -0400
To: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
Cc: Jason Lixfeld <jason@lixfeld.ca>, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2013-09-09, at 14:29, joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> wrote:
> On 9/9/13 7:43 AM, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
>> That notwithstanding, it's stupid to send traffic to/from one of the
>> large $your_region/country incumbents via $not_your_region/country.
>> It's just not good Internet.=20
>=20
> yyz-yvr is faster via the united states. physics doesn't respect
> poltical boundries.
Not only physics, but geometry. Vancouver is further north than Seattle, =
but Toronto is further south than Portland.
http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=3DYYZ-YVR
Joe
