Re: [ga] Re: Haiti, the Internet and ICANN/ Bandwidth Useage

[Hugh Dierker <hdierker2204@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for this reminder. I work with and in developing nations and bandwidth is a serious concern. I made this case here years ago as it relates to two matters;
   
  1. Limiting posts.
   
  2. limiting bandwidth useage on the list.
   
  These goals are accomplished by limiting the daily posts and two, voluntary compliance with "trimming the tail off the comet" This means, do not repost entire threads, one post back or even snipping on the one post.
  You will be amazed at some of the arrogance by developed nation people as they refuse to comply with either.

  As you see here it is not complicated - merely considerate.
   
  Eric
veni markovski <veni@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
    <snip>
  Stephane,
it is difficult to explain that in some countries 
there may be Internet (e.g. e-mail), but not very 
wide spread web access, for a number of reasons; 
some of them will be discussed at the IGF in Rio, 
namely affordability of access. People in the 
North/West take [high-speed] access for granted. 
People in the US think that 3-5 Mbps is 
high-speed, because that's what they get via the 
DSL/cable. People in much poorer Bulgaria 
consider 100 Mbps normal, and some even complain it's slow...
Yet, the functioning of a ccTLD some think, is 
defined by the web site... How much sorrow is 
there in the world..., as one of the characters 
from the Bulgarian literature is famously quoted.

veni 





       
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