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On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Mark R. Lindsey wrote: > If a large network with large amounts of nonportable space, like UUNET, > were to fail entirely (financially, or system-wide, e.g.), what would > happen to the address space that that network had assigned to its > customers? Nothing. First the courts would appoint someone to run the company on behalf of the creditors. Then someone would buy the assets and customers for 10 cents on the dollar. Operational impact will be minimal to nonexistent. Now if an asteroid were to hit Dallas, that would shake things up a little bit more but not dramatically so. -- Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting Memra Communications Inc. - E-mail: [email protected] http://www.memra.com - *check out the new name & new website*
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