Re: When should we https our mirrors?

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

]] Aron Xu 

> To make it clear, content delivery systems used by pypi and npm don't
> work for many people in China because:
> 
> 1) Major global CDN providers don't have decent services in the
> country (except akamai and cloudflare but need special contract);
> 
> 2) BGP based network topology discovery never work because eBGP
> routing is not widely deployed for subscriber network;

While I sympatise with people in China who have less than stellar access
to the entire internet, I don't think we should give the rest of the
world a worse experience just so everybody has the same set of
problems.  At the same time, if we can design a solution that works well
for everybody, that's of course preferable.

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Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are