[Afpif] Transit vs. peering Focust for Africa by 2021

[Mark Tinka]

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> From: "Nishal Goburdhan" <nishal at controlfreak.co.za>
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> i won’t be at afpif-2015.  but if you can find a local ISP that can 
> tell you that its numbers are truly this, i’ll buy you a beer at the 
> next one.   ie:
> * i am a generic isp.  not a purpose built network.
> * i have <= 40% of my bandwidth as international peering and transit.
> * i have >= 60% of my bandwidth fed to me from on-continent.
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> i don’t run a network;  but i had breakfast with a large operator in 
> my country today, and he assures me that his numbers are anything like 
> this.

Agree.


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> We define "Locally relevant content" as content hosted and served from a particular country. That means that if the most popular local newspapers hosts its website outside say Kenya, that is not counted as locally relevant content - it is just global content that might also be relevant. 


But you may have to be even more specific - content hosted and served
locally does not mean it was produced locally. If the most popular
newspaper in the country is a non-local one, but is hosted and served
locally in-country, would it not be "locally relevant content"?

Mark.