Abstract
No New Zealand government funding has ever been directed towards Internet development. The Internet in New Zealand has always been funded at least in part by charges to users. This, combined with the high cost of bandwidth to and from New Zealand, has triggered more rapid and widespread adoption of World Wide Web caching than has been seen in most countries. This paper gives a brief history of the development of the Internet in New Zealand. It describes the use of WWW caching in New Zealand between 1993 and January 1996, concentrating particularly on the deployment of the Harvest Cache software. This software entered production use in October 1995, and less than four months later a single server using it processes the equivalent of around 5% of all Internet traffic between New Zealand and the rest of the world. The deployment of Harvest Cache software in a number of other countries is briefly described. The results of a survey of New Zealand WWW cache users are presented, indicating that priorities are different for identifiable types of user organisation. Issues raised by the commercialisation of international bandwidth provision are discussed, and expected development of the Harvest software is outlined.
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