Would any access providers who measure such things care to share the ratio of domestic:international traffic, inbound to and outbound from their networks? Back when I was crashing routers in AS 4768 the feeling was that about 20% of traffic stayed local, within New Zealand. That was pre-Southern Cross, though, and it's perfectly possible that the ratio was inflated due to unsatisfied demand. The prices for transit in other countries are much, much cheaper now, and the cost of reaching those countries directly (if you buy your own transmission capacity there) has also gone down substantially, so maybe that would also act to make the ratio lower. On the other hand, as people become more used to doing things over the Internet, you'd expect local content to grow. On yet another hand (four, now?) since so many people are still inexplicably cursed with dialup, maybe that growth would be lower than in other, more enlightened markets. Seems like an interesting question, anyway. I guess this would be easiest to measure at an ISP that used separate domestic and international uplinks (like Telecom used to provision, and may still do for all I know, and like TCL have started to do). If anybody would like to share some numbers, feel free to mail me directly and I can summarise back to the list. Joe