Re: topological closeness....

[gopi () ece iisc ernet in (Gopi K Garge)]

Miguel A.L. Paraz sez:

> 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.

        Oh ... I have complete details on how many hits some of these
        servers get from my domain and who in my domain are originating
        requests. getting these details is a matter of some dedicated
        hardware and a one time programming effort - the rest is -
        thanks to ethernet technology.

> Caching should help getting commonly requested information faster.

        Sure ... but you'd notice that these are mechanisms to control
        your traffic across a low bandwidth link, but that's not the
        issue. The issue is where will the link that we have terminate.

> >       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.


        When ?? I feel it is long overdue. If we are to "attract" intra
        AP region bandwidth investment - as in getting ISPs to interconnect
        within the region, there must be an effort to provide
        content. The ISPs may then have a case (not a strong one though)
        to interconnect locally. How do we do this ? I know that this is 
        not a trivial question, but ......

--Gopi
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