<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra">On 31 October 2013 15:28, Mark Elkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mje@posix.co.za" target="_blank">mje@posix.co.za</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 11:59 +0300, Ali Hussein wrote:<br>
> Listers<br>
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> There is a case for a hybrid approach to Internet Security and<br>
> Governance. No one wants Balkanisation of the Internet but no one also<br>
> wants one country controlling most of the levers that run the Internet<br>
> running roughshod over everyone else!!<br>
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</div>I believe that the owner of an e-mail account should have their mailbox<br>
as close as they can to themselves.<br>
If its a company mail box - host the mail server at the office.<br>
If its for a private individual, use the local ISP.<br>
I can not see a need to use services such as gmail - unless the service<br>
at the ISP or your company is completely dreadful.<br>
That should be an opportunity to get things fixed.<br>
<br>
Keeping mail as local as possible should just make common sense.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1 Mark</div><div>I feel you. I wonder if there is a study on how much users of the global south pay for data transit because most of the content is hosted in the global north.</div><div>
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The same holds for web sites - unless your target audience is worldwide<br>
and evenly dispersed. If a website has a local orientation - it should<br>
be local. I guess the same could be said for the Domain names that are<br>
used.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1</div><div>.de and .za have done wonderful in this aspect. </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
"Cloud" storage (the fancy newish name for keeping systems in an ISP's<br>
Data-Centre - which has been around for years) - should be localised or<br>
at least in the same country. The primary reason for not doing this<br>
would be for disaster recovery purposes - where you require a copy of<br>
your data a hundred or more kilometres from where you are for "safety"<br>
sake..<br>
<br>
All of the above should help local connectivity grow in speed/efficiency<br>
and drop in price.<br>
<br>
This should not stop the Internet as a whole from continuing to be<br>
important. Fragmentation would be bad, really bad. Building new<br>
international fibre links - eg BRICS - Brazil --> South Africa --> India<br>
--> China --> Russia - is a good thing. More redundant links. I'm pretty<br>
sure though that all the BRICS Intelligent Agencies will snoop the<br>
packets...<br>
<br>
I believe that people are chowing out the US Government (as they got<br>
caught last) - to move attention from the fact that other governments<br>
are also doing the same thing or wishing they could do the same - and<br>
would if they technically could.<br>
<br>
Being English - I guess I have the attitude that as I'm not doing<br>
anything "wrong" in the Internet - my data should pass beneath the<br>
radar. I (hmm..) trust my government. Of course certain entities could<br>
be (OK - probably are) using my data for nefarious purposes...<br>
<br>
Its going to happen, or rather is and has been happening for years.<br>
The Internet is just more efficient and the world just a bit smaller.<br>
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