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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Points of Failure (was Re: National infrastructure asset)
"Grant A. Kirkwood" wrote: > > Sean Donelan wrote: > > > > On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Alex Bligh wrote: > The national air traffic system makes a poor analogy to the Internet in > this case, IMHO. If O'Hare got nuked tomorrow, we'd have some serious > disruption in passenger traffic. If PAIX fell into the ocean, OTOH, > traffic would simply route around it. Isn't that how we try to engineer > the Internet? > > So in other words, yes, everything is important, and yes, nothing is > particularly important. But there was a point in time when taking out a certain parking garage in Va could have caused us a very great deal of difficulty. But I'd say we are past that, for the most part. Bob
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