On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Jim Popovitch <jim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 3:06 PM, John Levine <jo...@iecc.com> wrote: > > In article <ee045d19-797d-4346-8793-b854e528f...@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
