[2935] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: topological closeness....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Wed May 15 08:25:39 1996
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 08:21:16 -0400
To: "David R. Conrad" <davidc@apnic.net>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: Sanjay Dani <sanjay@professionals.com>, avg@postman.ncube.com,
nanog@merit.edu, davidc@apnic.net, local-ir@apnic.net
At 07:37 PM 5/15/96 +0900, David R. Conrad wrote:
>
>In the Asia Pacific Rim region, nearly all the bandwidth goes from AP
>region countries to the US directly. This is true due to the
>tariffing situation, although it is now beginning to change (some
>intra-Asia networks have already been established).
>
I think many of us have been *very* vocal supporters of encouraging
creationm of multiple AP NAPs to avoid this form of dementia. :-)
When traffic transits back to the US West Coast to reach another AP
location, this clearly contributes to the overall problem.
>Putting mirrors in countries usually makes sense (particularly when a
>country has an Internet exchange or two), but putting them on a
>continental basis generally doesn't.
>
Agreed. Creating exchange points would also help immensely.
- paul
