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Re: national allocations, woeber@localhost

  • To: "Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet" < >
  • From: Alex French < >
  • Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 17:25:03 +0100
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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Alex French
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