[166692] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How anti-NSA backlash could fracture the Internet along national
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Mon Nov 4 05:48:23 2013
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 19:48:03 +0900
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20131102190629.99625.qmail@joyce.lan>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
John Levine wrote:
> 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.
For countries other than US, mandating domestic servers prevents
money going away to US through US based companies.
It is expensive only for those having foreign servers, which
nullifies advantages of global service companies over domestic
ones.
Masataka Ohta
