[113503] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fiber cut in SF area
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Mon Apr 13 21:58:41 2009
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:52:05 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Peter Lothberg <roll@Stupi.SE>
In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.95.0.1239673285.roll@rutten.stupi.se>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 03:41:25AM +0200, Peter Lothberg wrote:
> > > There are three solutions to the problem;
> > >
> > > A: Put a armed soldier every 150ft on the fiber path.
> > >
> > > B: Make the infrstructure so redundant that cutting things
> > > just makes you tired, but nothing hapens.
> > >
> > > C: Do nothing.
> > >
> > >
> > > As the society becomes more and more dependent on the infrastructure
> > > for electronic communication, my suggestion to policy makers has been
> > > that it should be easier to imprison all the government officials of a
> > > contry than knocking out it's infrastrcture.
>
> -P
Yo, Peter. You speak of "infrastructure" as if it was a monolithic thing.
Why would you think that some localized NoCal fiber cuts would be taking out
the whole countrys infrastructure?
--bill
