national allocations

At 06:28 PM 20/10/2000, Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote:


>   My guess would be that in 9 out of 10 cases (or in 199 out of 200?),
>   the concept of "country" in the Internet is not useful at all.
>
>   Even if you manage to "properly" look at the geographical aspect, in
>   general it doesn't tell you anything reasonable about connectivity, user
>   community, and the like.

A few years ago maybe, but the prevalence of IXs would suggest to me that 
if you know the geographical location of a host, you can rely on it for a 
rough estimates.

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