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Australia Investigates Peering Practices
Anonymous Sniper writes "The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission today announced that it will hold a public inquiry into whether an Internet interconnection [peering] service should be regulated. This would mean the big National ISPs would have to pay smaller ISPs for traffic originating within their networks, which means everyone's routing tables would become more efficient, and cheaper for the smaller ISPs. This would also set a significant international precedent. Horray for the ACCC and Allan Fels - the same people who made Region-Free DVD players legal here."
We all know everytime someone says it, Allan Fells says it's bullshit.
He announced intention to retire at the end of his contract.
On Slashdot, roads troll you.
I'd like to state first of all that I always wash my hands after going pee. However, my penis has been in my pants all day (usually). Who the hell knows what my hands have been coming into contact with while touching doors, handles, lab keyboards, etc... If anything, I should wash my hands BEFORE, not after I go pee. What we should investigate instead, is why so many people don't wash their hands before going pee.
Sounds like a good idea now. I'll have to wait till I'm sober to make a "reasonable" decision.
There has been a pretty good reason why the internet has been US-centric... I think it might have something to do with the Department of Defense and a few colleges back in the late 70's, but I'm not too sure. I do host webpages on my own machine, reuben[spaceapes.com], including a few other things, like a forum[spaceapes.com] and picture gallery[spaceapes.com]. I agree that the ability to host these locally is increasing with permanent connections, but the key is that these permanent connections have greater bandwidth.
The intention of ARPA when they created ARPANET, which evolved into the internet, was redundancy in the case of an attack on our country; this network didn't include DNS. Sure, DNS is pretty US-centric, but it works. It's Probably not as redundant as it could be, but short of a targeted attack on the DNS root servers, I think it's pretty solid.
I hate sigs...