Internet Surveillance and Boomerang Routing: A Call for Canadian Network Sovereignty

[jabley at hopcount.ca (Joe Abley)]

On 2013-09-09, at 14:29, joel jaeggli <joelja at bogus.com> wrote:

> On 9/9/13 7:43 AM, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
>> That notwithstanding, it's stupid to send traffic to/from one of the
>> large $your_region/country incumbents via $not_your_region/country.
>> It's just not good Internet. 
> 
> yyz-yvr is faster via the united states. physics doesn't respect
> poltical boundries.

Not only physics, but geometry. Vancouver is further north than Seattle, but Toronto is further south than Portland.

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=YYZ-YVR


Joe