Re: [ILUG] [OT ish] Peering - Ireland and the world

From: John McCormac (jmcc at domain hackwatch.com)
Date: Wed 09 May 2001 - 14:21:57 IST


Gary McCloskey wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> a question has come up in the office regarding internet connectivity and
> peering in Ireland.
>
> Basically there have been varying reports in the press about a senior person
> in a global IT organisation in Ireland saying that Ireland's peering is not
> all it should be, and is putting us at a disadvantage.

The comment was from some guy called Dillon who worked for Microsoft.
Basically I think he was just clueless as he seemed to be just a
business head. Therefore he was just waffling on to clueless technology
journalists (yes I know it is a tautology) and they took the quote
verbatim because they did not know any different.

Regards...jmcc

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