2nd Root Server in Europe

On Tuesday, 21 Jan 1997, Christophe Wolfhugel writes:
> Marcel Schneider:
>> IMHO: Your answer is insufficient if not entirely mistaken. The inhabitants
>> of central and southern Europe have a right to the same kind of connectivity
>> as the northern region is now trying to get hold of or already has done
>> so. Make no sense to improve an already good situation.

> What about having the Europeans to work towards moving the center of
> Europe from the US East coast to some European point ?

> As long as European major connectivity providers are ignoring each other
> and having their best interconnection points being MAE-East or the NY Nap
> all this seems useless to me...

> (that was an end user's point of view -- intra Europe networking is not
> usable today for people who work, at least those not in scandinavian areas).

> So for us, London, Stockholm, NY, Washington, Geneva, Milano, etc... that
> root server will mainly be unrechable :(.

> The location of that server is not a technical issue, it's a political one.

Agreements, policies. Also my (personal) opinion. But as long 
as Peter Lothberg <roll at Stupi.SE> et al are attempting to tell us 
'route your inter-European IP packets over the US' nothing will improve.
The owners of 150+ MB links to the US can easily sell this opinion,
but it is absurd.

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> Christophe Wolfhugel  -+- SIS, Institut Pasteur, Paris
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Marcel