Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations

Sat Oct 26 01:01:14 UTC 1996

> 
> On Fri, 25 Oct 1996 alex at relcom.eu.net wrote:
> 
> > 1) In case if INTERNET split into US and EUrope parts withouth interconnection,
> > no too many in USA will notice it, but INTERNET in Europe will die
> > (moreover, computer's world will die too).
> 
> Don't you believe it.  Over the last year we have seen a steady downward
> drift in the percentage of our traffic which goes to the US -- a 20% 
> change over the last year, I think.  
>  
Hmmm,

I wonder how much of this drop can be attributed to the closure of the Louvre
in Paris and the Delft Institute of Technology closing the 17th floor to US
sites.....

Larry