On Aug 11, 2012, at 9:41 PM, SM wrote: > Here is a rough estimate of users for one content provider: > > US 158,758,940 > Brazil 54,902,560 > India 51,925,180 > UK 37,569,580 > France 24,345,920 > Italy 21,822,640 > Canada 17,474,940 > Spain 16,075,560 > Egypt 11,513,720 > Russia 5,560,080 > Romania 4,928,100 > Tunisia 3,107,040 > Libya 608,380 > China 520,780 > Uganda 444,560 > > If tomorrow Italy decides to adopt a "sending party pays" model it > may still be financially viable for the content provider to remain in > that market. It may not work that well for Uganda. > > If tomorrow Libya decides that it would be in its interest to control > access to the Internet, operators can route around the problem as we > all know that's how the Internet works. These operators are (hypothetically) Libyan citizens, right? Residents of Libya who could go to jail for routing around the problem. Most likely on a charge of espionage. > Well, not really, if most of > the traffic passes through one international gateway. The number of international gateways does not matter, if all the operators have to comply with the government's blacklist, or have to install a government-mandated policy on a government-mandated firewall. > You can send > traffic over port 443 to prevent eavesdropping as that port is > secure. Well, not really, if the user already trusts the wrong SSL > certificate. Not trusting the certificate just means you get annoying warnings. It won't let you circumvent it. Living in an authoritarian country means you don't get to play cat & mouse with your government > If you are on an Internet governance soapbox you might as well talk > about how the US is evil and it should not be the only country > running the Internet. You might also want to add that having only 13 > root nameservers is all part of a conspiracy and that the IETF must > fix that. Obviously someone must be running this Internet thing or > else you will have to review your belief system. I thought it was Al Gore running the Internet from his garage, no? Yoav