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Re: Routing public traffic across county boundaries in Europe


From: Barry Shein <bzs () world std com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:35:18 -0400



On July 27, 2007 at 06:14 lionel () mamane lu (Lionel Elie Mamane) wrote:

Also, I've heard that Canada had (maybe still has) this legislation
forbidding you to route intra-Canadian *telephone* traffic through
another country. Something about else nobody would build a
intercontinental coast-to-coast Canadian network, would just send
long-distance traffic to the USA, go to other coast and send it back
to Canada and being this dependent on a foreign country, that's bad.

OTOH, the spirit of the Bretton Woods conferences at the end of WWII
on preventing a repeat was that such critical industrial
interdependencies were fundamental to dissuading nations from going to
war on one another. So far the idea has worked pretty well, exceptions
excepted.

Obviously YMMV.

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