[ih] Ingrid Burrington on North Virginia

[Andrew Blum]

This would seem an important point to bring up with the Loudon County marketing team, not to mention those at Equinix, AWS and the other major players in the region—all of whom have everything to gain from the statistic. For me, the issue here isn’t the inability to measure Internet traffic, nor journalists parroting incorrect and unverifiable marketing numbers, but the very fact that “facts” about data centers in Northern Virginia are so hard to come by. We all know why that’s the case. But if we’re talking about getting Internet history right, then all this secrecy is obviously an ongoing problem. One consequence could be the loss, or at least the diminution, of the Internet as a public good—which is a key theme of Burrington’s articles, and an idea I’d think this list would grok.

> On Jan 12, 2016, at 10:37 AM, faber at lunabase.org wrote:
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> January 12 2016 6:46 AM, "Vint Cerf" <vint at google.com <mailto:%22Vint%20Cerf%22%20<vint at google.com>>> wrote:
> on the assumption that not much traffic is black holed (could be a bad assumption, I know), then the total traffic injected into any network that is part of the Internet could be considered "Internet traffic."
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> As with most definitions, the definition should depend on the question you're trying to answer.  I don't get the feeling that the writer of this article is investigating a question in a scholarly way.
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