Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S.

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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John Markoff, New York Times:

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The era of the American Internet is ending.

Invented by American computer scientists during the 1970s, the Internet has
been embraced around the globe. During the network’s first three decades,
most Internet traffic flowed through the United States. In many cases, data
sent between two locations within a given country also passed through the
United States.

Engineers who help run the Internet said that it would have been impossible
for the United States to maintain its hegemony over the long run because of
the very nature of the Internet; it has no central point of control.

And now, the balance of power is shifting. Data is increasingly flowing
around the United States, which may have intelligence — and conceivably
military — consequences.

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More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/business/30pipes.html

This is a very "entertaining" article...

- - ferg

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