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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 [email protected] wrote: :I completely agree with statement. It is not a matter of wanting to :know where the importants hubs are - we have a pretty good handle on :that, but what the impacts would be of a hub loss from an operational :stand point. Maybe this is a discussion that needs to be off-line. :My goal is to provide some context and validation for the research :that is being carried out. The vulnerability is relative to the priority and value of the asset being protected. Without definition of those assets from the government, or whatever stakeholder needs to know, it is difficult to explain. Operationally, you can talk about various meet-me points, hubs, exchanges and routes as being critical, but the sites those links service will be the metric by which their importance is measured. Until our various political masters decide what sites they think are truely critical, any assessment will be relative to shifting priorities of participants in the discussion. Who is more critical; Nasdaq, Google, WCOM or the GSA? You can see how this becomes relative pretty quickly. -- batz
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