[LINK] Australian ISP Peering

[Tom Koltai]

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> From: link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of 
> stephen at melbpc.org.au
> Sent: Wednesday, 18 March 2009 3:05 PM
> To: link at anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Australian ISP Peering
> 
> 
> > No-one in Au Government, regulatory or otherwise actually 
> understands 
> > the loss to Australia in terms of Economic benefits resulting from 
> > Telstra not peering with all comers on a local only basis ..
> >
> > Actually I mean that if all ISP's were at a single peering 
> location - 
> > and it was a stable secure well funded environment - then 
> is there any 
> > reason.. as to why Telstra wouldnt peer with all ISP's. (A 
> truly level 
> > playing field for Australian content suppliers and e-commerce.)
> 
> 
> For example?  http://www.netnod.se/background.shtml
> 
> In 1996 SUNET, the Swedish University Network, together with Swedish 
> Internet Service Providers as represented in the Swedish 
> Internet- operators Forum (SOF) planned for the establishment 
> of one or more 
> national nodes for exchange of Internet traffic. 

Exactly. And combined with the incoming traffic to the Pirate Bay is a
very good example of an accelerated economy resulting from IT
utilisation not hampered by restrictive peering practices. According to
the OECD, Sweden is ahead of the USA in E-commerce utilisation 

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/45/43/38287525.pdf says
Market openness and the economic environment
Sweden is an open and prosperous economy. Its relative dependence on
trade is reflected in the value of imports and exports of goods and
services, which amounted to 41% and 49% respectively of GDP in 2005.1
These figures were noticeably above the OECD averages and in line with
other Nordic and medium-sized European economies (see Figure 1).

And I wish I could paste Fig 1 in here..... It would open everyones
eyes.

Proven empirically by 

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/6/27/2483806.xls

Annex Table 9.  Foreign balance contributions to changes in real GDP

Per cent

		      	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
2010	
	

Australia		      0.5  -0.1  0.9  	0.9  	-1.0 -0.5
0.9  	1.2  	-1.7  -2.2  -1.8  -1.2 	-0.9 	-1.9 	-1.7 -0.2  
Sweden		      0.0   1.7  0.5  	1.2  	-0.3 	1.4  	0.7
1.1  	1.0  	0.3  	2.1  	0.8  	0.9  	-1.1  -0.2 	0.0  	
(Extract)

Which shows sweden is far more stable in its GDP disparity between
imports and exports than Australia - specifically since 2003.

And comparing broadband penetration per 100 users...
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/21/35/39574709.xls
We find that the countries that peer more - also amazingly appear to
have the highest intertnet usage.

OECD Broadband statistics [oecd.org/sti/ict/broadband]

1d. OECD Broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants, by technology, June
2008							
							
Rank		DSL	Cable	Fibre/LAN 	Other 	Total	Total
subscribers
1	Denmark	22.5	9.8	3.2	1.1	36.7	 1 996 408
2	Netherlands	21.2	13.7	0.4	0.2	35.5	 5 806
595
3	Norway	24.1	5.9	2.6	0.7	33.4	 1 554 993
4	Switzerland	22.5	9.7	0.3	0.3	32.7	 2 471
592
5	Iceland	31.2	0.0	0.5	0.6	32.3	  98 361
6	Sweden	19.9	6.4	6.0	0.1	32.3	 2 933 014
7	Korea	8.4	10.5	12.2	0.0	31.2	 15 059 029
8	Finland	26.1	4.0	0.0	0.5	30.7	 1 616 200
9	Luxembourg	24.8	3.4	0.1	0.1	28.3	  133
736
10	Canada	12.6	14.9	0.0	0.4	27.9	 9 201 998
11	United Kingdom	21.7	5.9	0.0	0.1	27.6	 16 710
169
12	Belgium	15.8	10.4	0.0	0.2	26.4	 2 789 579
13	France	25.1	1.3	0.0	0.0	26.4	 16 700 000
14	Germany	24.6	1.6	0.0	0.1	26.2	 21 618 300
15	United States	10.1	13.2	0.9	0.8	25.0	 75 009
521
16	Australia	18.6	4.2	0.0	0.8	23.5	 4 981
656

In summary - those countries that have open trading policies - open
communications legislation - and open file sharing policies - are all at
the top of the GDP per Capita ladder.

Why is that ??????

Is it because the Internet in htose countries is not artificially
stifled by telco interests ?
Is it because those countries encourage young minds to explore without
fear of prosecution ?
Is it because in those countries - mummy and daddy would never receive a
$9,000 phone bill ?
Is it because in those countries Junior wouldn't receive a take down
notice threat from the RIAA with a threat of prosecution settlement
offer for $25,000 ?

I say it is. 
All of those things.


Tom


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