IT Business reports on the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) initiative to create local Internet exchange points (IXPs) “where carriers and communications providers directly connect with each other to exchange traffic”—keeping that Internet traffic out of U.S.-based exchanges. CIRA President and CEO Byron Holland noted, “All the events coming out of the U.S. with the NSA and the PRISM program highlight that it’s a good idea to keep traffic in your own jurisdiction as much as you can.” Without local IXPs, he explained, “I could be sending you an e-mail from downtown Ottawa to another point in Ottawa, and there’s a 40-percent chance that will go through the U.S.”
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