[166660] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How anti-NSA backlash could fracture the Internet along national
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Petach)
Sat Nov 2 15:42:48 2013
In-Reply-To: <CAGfsgR0YadG59LrmCv3eE0GtnC9e-DFX+j35vJiUA+mxbRmTQQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 12:42:35 -0700
From: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
To: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@gmail.com>
Cc: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Jim Popovitch <jimpop@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
I wince for the copy-editor that missed the typo
in this headline:
http://www.bricscable.com/blog/brics-scale-black-plan-to-challenge-west/
Matt
