Re: Internet Surveillance and Boomerang Routing: A Call for Canadian Network Sovereignty

[joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

On 9/9/13 12:43 PM, Michael Hallgren wrote:
> Le 09/09/2013 21:16, Joe Abley a écrit :
> > On 2013-09-09, at 14:29, joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com> wrote:
> >
> > > On 9/9/13 7:43 AM, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
> > > > That notwithstanding, it's stupid to send traffic to/from one of the
> > > > large $your_region/country incumbents via $not_your_region/country.
> > > > It's just not good Internet. 
> > > yyz-yvr is faster via the united states. physics doesn't respect
> > > poltical boundries.
> > Not only physics, but geometry. Vancouver is further north than Seattle, but Toronto is further south than Portland.
> >
> > http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=YYZ-YVR
>
> Fiber path along great circle? Cool case. :)

YYZ-CHI-MSP-SEA-YVR is close enough. this is BNSF vs CN

> mh
>
> > Joe