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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><big><big>OK, McTim, I take care of
your objections.<br>
I'm only the interviewer.<br>
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I'll discuss your arguments with the author, who is quite an
expert, especially in routing, in order to find where could be
misunderstandings.<br>
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About Verisign, I agree that it's a short expression for an
actual reality: US gov COULD cut DNS access to any country in
the world. Verisign would just execute orders.<br>
I'm one of the best defenders of the idea that US Gov NEVER
DID - in that way with DNS. But you could consider that in a
diplomatic assembly devoted to discuss peacefully the power
relations, such an asymetric situation cannot be sustainable.
Especially as US Gov DID cut access by other means...<br>
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I'll follow that point, not surely very quickly, but surely.<br>
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@+, cheers, Dom</big></big><br>
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Dominique Lacroix
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Société européenne de l'Internet
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ies-france.eu">http://www.ies-france.eu</a>
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Le 18/12/12 16:15, McTim a écrit :<br>
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On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Dominique Lacroix <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dl@panamo.eu"><dl@panamo.eu></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi,
The third part deals with the price of interconnection in Africa.
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Which has some misinformation in both Q' and A's.
"DL : Africa is now surrounded by several submarine cables. And yet,
Internet does is not take off. It is in the case mentioned, where the
Africans pay dearly to the countries of the North's access to the
Internet. What is going on?"
Africans actually pay dearly to African ISPs. A very small portion of
these subscriber fee is for Internet transit.
It used to be a larger portion, as back in the day, we would pay 5000
USD per megabit per second to vsat providers, now we pay 50 usd per
Mbps/month.
In markets with greater scale, the wholesale price is closer to 5 USD
per Mbps/month. We will get there, but first the CAPEX of the
submarine cable needs to be paid.
Having said that the greatest cost to African Internet subscribers by
far is for last (and middle) mile costs....Again, the meme that South
pays North is grossly over-exaggerated in the context of what is
expensive in African Internet costs.
In addition, it is NOT the case that Verisign can unilaterally remove
a country from the root zone. Nor can they deny a country access to
the root zone data. It is just not physically or technically
possible.
Propagating 10 year old paradigms and myths that were never true is
just not helpful!
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