On 8/04/2010, at 4:30 PM, Gordon Paynter wrote: - After consultation with New Zealand telecom vendors we have decided to run the harvest from the United States using the Internet Archive's hardware and network infrastructure, as we did in 2008.
Can you elaborate on this?
I think you will find it elaborated on in the document at the URL linked in the original post: http://www.natlib.govt.nz/catalogues/library-documents/web-harvest-consultat... "The next best option, hosting with a telecommunications provider in New Zealand, was not viable for the 2010 harvest on grounds of value-for-money and increased technical complexity and risk. Similar issues arise with the possibility of hosting at the Library itself, or routin from the USA via New Zealand."