[104902] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hurricane season starts June 1: Carriers harden networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Mason)
Thu May 29 19:42:06 2008
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0805271711510.29310@clifden.donelan.com>
From: Ian Mason <nanog@ian.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 00:41:44 +0100
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On 27 May 2008, at 22:18, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> The official spokespeople don't mention it, but there is also a
> tendency for local officials to divert fuel delivery trucks for
> their use instead
> of maintaining communication facilities.
>
>
Some years ago we managed to get the UK government emergency planning
folks to actually factor this into their plans so that communications
fuel supplies get adequate priority. In fact we even planned for some
highly unlikely contingencies. Fortunately we haven't yet had a
chance to find out if this planning actually works out in practice.
Ian
