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On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 01:44:08PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > 1) More needs to be done to leverage locality of traffic > > In the long run, why are we assuming there will be locality of > traffic? > > It is true that the old PSTN has locality of traffic, but it doesn't > have flat rate pricing, or the usage patterns that the Internet has. I > argue that users are rarely more likely to be trying to download a web > page from near to their homes than from far away. If there is > locality, it is probably weak, and in the long run would only account > for a fraction of the traffic. The Web is Not The Net. Please write that 100K times on your blackboard. (PS: no, you _can't_ use expect(1l) :-). The fact, however, that you're correct in your implication that it's difficult to prove how much traffic would be geographically local given the routing technologies currently available is why I was going to slip the peering in under the rug of selling the transit -- which everyone seems to be telling me won't work. On another point, it's worth noting that, _currently_, all the "good" servers are somewhere else... but this won't be the case forever. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby, Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592 Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com
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