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Everytime Ralph opens his mouth he shows how little he knows.

1. Round-trip packet times for traffic from Ottawa to Toronto are app. 10ms.
It would
make no difference whether CIRA's server(s) were located in either city.  Of
course,
Istop.com's customers would see a difference as Ralph is too cheap to buy
guaranteed
bandwidth between Ottawa and Toronto, resulting in packet loss for his
customers.

2. Moving CIRA's server(s) from Ottawa to Toronto would make no difference if
those
servers truly are a single point of failure.  "Gee - if this server crashes,
the
Internet in Canada is screwed.  Let's move it from one city to another - that
will
fix things!!"  Anybody with half a brain would realize that the proper solution
is more
servers, spread across the entire country with no single point of failure.
This is
how they do things in the US and it seems to work just fine.

3. Magma's website says they're building a new data center in Toronto - at 151
Front
Street.  Perhaps CIRA will be taking advantage of this to improve their
redundancy.

4. The people that I have talked to (including a couple of folks at CIRA) have
had
nothing but good things to say about Magma, and from what I've heard, their
Ottawa
Data Center is top notch, rivaling any other facility in Canada.

5. Isn't it weird that to get to Ralph's "center of the Internet in Canada" via
IStop,
you have to get there by way of New York?

Jordan


Ralph wrote:

> I as well as others have advised CIRA that critical national infrastructure
> such as the master CA root server should be kept at a better facility than
> Magma's datacenter in an industrial park on the outskirts of Ottawa.
>
> CIRA is now planning to move its servers to 151 Front St. W. in Toronto,
> which is essentially the center of the internet in Canada.
>
> -Ralph