IT Compass

During a meeting, the terms "north" and "south" popped up again while discussing network zoning and DMZ. North is the "outside", typically the Internet. South are the internal, trusted systems.

North-South in networking (from PaloAlto networking)

How would IT people in South-Africa think about this, where the north is "hot" and very south Antarctica cold? Maybe also good fit: freezing in the data center, hot and dangerous on the Internet.