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well if I may stick my two cents in from a rainy russian sankt peterburg, I disagree. Sure the majority of my traffic is not local and I do business with my newsletter all over the world/ But I will not be entirely happy with the internet until i have a locally usable conncetion to my township city hall where I and my fellow citizens can debate local politics. I want the same connection to my local school board and internet using teachers. the same to my county commissioners and my state legislature. I want email to the local library and use of its web site. I want access to local transportation schedules and local businesses and restaurant menus. and yes maybe even to the local pizza parlor. as long as we live in **physical places** and pay taxes to local governments, the internet will not make local geography entirely irrelevant. I cannot predict exact percentages but I know with certainty there is a LOT of local communication the *I* would like to do that I cannot. Given an increase in the density of local users local traffic will surely increase. *********************************************************************** The COOK Report on Internet For subsc. pricing & more than 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA ten megabytes of free material (609) 882-2572 (phone & fax) visit http://cookreport.com/ Internet: [email protected] New Special Report: Internet Governance at the Crossroads ($175) http://cookreport.com/inetgov.shtml ************************************************************************ On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Paul Ferguson wrote: > At 04:23 PM 9/17/97 -0700, Pushpendra Mohta wrote: > > > > >Even in the scenario where physical proximity automatically implied > >network proximity, I think the assumption that local traffic will > >dominate communications needs to be revisited. It is true today, only > >because that is how people live lives and conduct business _today_. The > >concept of "community" today is geographical.. the communities of > >tommorrow may not be so restricted. > > > > I'm not at all convinced that 'local' traffic stays 'local', in fact, > I'd suspect that the latter case which you mention is already true. > > I'd very much like to see the ration of traffic which is 'pushed' to > that which is 'pulled' from the local exchange, especially at smaller > exchanges (e.g. Tucson, Packet Clearing House) to verify these > assumptions. Not sure enough solid data can be correlated at the > larger exchange points to provide a conclusion. > > - paul >
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