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.
