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Re: topological closeness....
From: "Miguel A.L. Paraz" <map () iphil net>
Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 21:14:51 +0800 (GMT+0800)
Hello, Gopi K Garge wrote:
IMHO, in the context of the AP region, I guess we are overlooking the user perspective - locally available "Internet" content. Barring .au, .sg, .kr, .hk (?), .jp and .tw, I do not see any major effort around to provide locally, content that is available in the US be it the GNU archive, the WU archive or one-of-those Beatles song and lyrics archive - result - good amount of traffic to the US.
With limited bandwidth, updating these archives would be slow, and, you wouldn't know yet if there are enough people accessing these to justify getting a mirror. Caching should help getting commonly requested information faster.
When one sees such traffic trends, why would an ISP even think in terms of investing in a link to a place other than the US - the cost permitting ?
In the long term, as the Internet becomes more common, regional content will become more important, IMHO. So develop the local content - and the local infrastructure - and regional intranets, and virtual private networks - will come in. -- miguel a.l. paraz <map () iphil net> iphil communications, makati city, tech problems, to <support () iphil net> philippines. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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- Re: topological closeness...., (continued)
- Re: topological closeness.... Vadim Antonov (May 13)
- Re: topological closeness.... Vadim Antonov (May 13)
- Re: topological closeness.... Jon Zeeff (May 13)
- Re: topological closeness.... Michael Dillon (May 13)
- Re: topological closeness.... Hank Nussbacher (May 13)
- Re: topological closeness.... Vadim Antonov (May 13)
- Re: topological closeness.... Paul Ferguson (May 15)
- Re: topological closeness.... Geoff Huston (May 15)
- Re: topological closeness.... Enzo Michelangeli (May 15)
- Re: topological closeness.... Gopi K Garge (May 16)
- Re: topological closeness.... Miguel A.L. Paraz (May 16)
- Re: topological closeness.... Alan Hannan (May 16)
- Re: topological closeness.... Miguel A.L. Paraz (May 17)
- Re: topological closeness.... bmanning (May 17)
- Re: topological closeness.... Geoff Huston (May 15)
- Re: topological closeness.... Gopi K Garge (May 18)
- Re: topological closeness.... Michael Dillon (May 16)