2nd Root Server in Europe
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Marcel Schneider
schneider at switch.ch
Tue Jan 21 16:56:58 CET 1997
On Tuesday, 21 Jan 1997, Christophe Wolfhugel writes: > Marcel Schneider: >> IMHO: Your answer is insufficient if not entirely mistaken. The inhabitants >> of central and southern Europe have a right to the same kind of connectivity >> as the northern region is now trying to get hold of or already has done >> so. Make no sense to improve an already good situation. > What about having the Europeans to work towards moving the center of > Europe from the US East coast to some European point ? > As long as European major connectivity providers are ignoring each other > and having their best interconnection points being MAE-East or the NY Nap > all this seems useless to me... > (that was an end user's point of view -- intra Europe networking is not > usable today for people who work, at least those not in scandinavian areas). > So for us, London, Stockholm, NY, Washington, Geneva, Milano, etc... that > root server will mainly be unrechable :(. > The location of that server is not a technical issue, it's a political one. Agreements, policies. Also my (personal) opinion. But as long as Peter Lothberg <roll at Stupi.SE> et al are attempting to tell us 'route your inter-European IP packets over the US' nothing will improve. The owners of 150+ MB links to the US can easily sell this opinion, but it is absurd. > -- > Christophe Wolfhugel -+- SIS, Institut Pasteur, Paris > Boulot : wolf at pasteur.fr, $HOME : wolf at schnok.fr.net Marcel
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