[166659] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How anti-NSA backlash could fracture the Internet along national
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Sat Nov 2 15:14:00 2013
In-Reply-To: <20131102190629.99625.qmail@joyce.lan>
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 15:13:51 -0400
From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@gmail.com>
To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 3:06 PM, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
> In article <ee045d19-797d-4346-8793-b854e528f813@email.android.com> you write:
>>The balkanizing of the Net?
>>
>>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/11/01/how-anti-nsa-backlash-could-fracture-the-internet-along-national-borders/
>
> I expect we'll hear lots of pontification, quietly fading away when
> someone explains to the pontificators just how expensive it would be
> to do what they want, and ask where the money is coming from.
>
> It would be swell if Brazil routed its Internet traffic somewhere
> other than Miami, for purely technical reasons of resilience and
> shorter routes. But that would require a cable to other places
> (Africa and Europe.) They can do that any time, so long as they pay
> for it.
I can't be the only one to have been following this 12.8TB of neat-o-ness:
http://www.bricscable.com/
-Jim P.
