X.Org Board Meetings: Mar. 2 Summary, Mar. 16 Agenda

[Daniel Stone]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 03:59:51PM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> We've not had issues with bandwidth on our end, so could live without mirrors,
> but we also recognize that mirrors in other parts of the world, especially
> those parts where there is mandatory nationwide Internet filtering or
> low-bandwidth links to North America, are useful for people in those areas
> to improve their bandwidth or reduce their latency in downloading, so while
> we're not anxious about needing to find more sites to mirror us, we want to be
> helpful in allowing others to provide them.

Also they're still useful for places like Australia: most ISPs and all
unis will give you free or discounted traffic to sites like
mirror.aarnet.edu.au, whereas other traffic gets charged.  (In fact,
unimelb charged you more for international data than domestic.)  So
yeah, while it has zero impact on other places, mirrors are _definitely_
still useful.

(Not to mention that our international links are hardly high-bandwidth.)

Cheers,
Daniel
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