[5271] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Creating exchanges [Was: Re: MAE-East - 30%]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Raveendran Greene)
Sun Oct 13 20:48:22 1996
From: Barry Raveendran Greene <barry@singnet.com.sg>
To: "'map@iphil.net'" <map@iphil.net>,
"'Robert E. Seastrom'"
<rs@bifrost.seastrom.com>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 17:21:41 -0700
Hello Robert,
Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
>Hong Kong looks slightly promising except for the slight problem of
>next summer. Singapore is probably a no-go because of how anal the
>government is there; all we need is an AP CIX with a host government
>enforced AUP that says "no dirty gifs, no politically unacceptable
>speech, etc.".
Actually, when you count the number of countries directly interconnected =
at any Asia Pacific IX (including the ones on the US West Cost) STIX - =
Singapore Telecom Internet Exchange is currently #1. (see =
http://www.stix.net).=20
Singapore's SBA (the Internet censor) has stated over and over again =
that business and international traffic are NOT their problem. They just =
out to protect the people at home - and that's Singapore's really none =
of our business (and not a topic for NANOG). Please read the information =
from the source vs reading biased reporters from the US - =
http://www.gov.sg/sba.=20
As to you other point, AP CIX is a no go in Asia Pacific. This =
discussion as been going on for over 4 years. I've been involved and =
actively trying to make it happen for over 3 years. The cable =
consortium, telco, national, AP ISP and US ISP politics prevent any type =
of successful 'neutral' IX in Asia Pacific.=20
Barry
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