On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 05:17:59PM +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > Certainly it's impossible to get them to define what > > "national" is in advance ... in theory they should be able to publish > > their BGP routing data, so it would be possible to predict the charge > > for a given packet ... > > I don't think they'd ever do that because it would result in a flood of > email traffic from people such as yourself who could put them right. I > don't suppose they want to to embarrassed.
It might also result in a flood of complaints to the commerce commission, when it turns out that "national traffic" means nothing. It can't mean "sites ending in .nz" It *should* mean "sites physically located in NZ", but doesn't. It *could* mean "sites (on ISPs) peering in NZ", which would be technically sensible; but doesn't. It seems to mean "sites of customers of Telstra - and perhaps sites of customers of Telecom; but we won't tell you" -jim
