[117140] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Issues with Gmail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Mathews (OSIA))
Wed Sep 2 13:34:47 2009
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:33:55 -0400
From: "Robert Mathews (OSIA)" <mathews@hawaii.edu>
In-reply-to: <d99aaed40909020733x6cf450ecqbf799d1c40ee318d@mail.gmail.com>
To: North American Network Operators Group <Nanog@merit.edu>
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On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
> [....] the internet is a wonderful
> demonstration of building a reliable network out of reliable components.
>
> but what we have with google mail (and apps) is two scary problems
>
> o way too many users relying on a single point of failure. so it
> makes the nyt when it breaks because of the number of users
> affected, and
I choose to not assume to "what/which single point of failure" this
reference by Randy applies. However, we can take confidence in the
fact that Google's Gmail service architecture is distributed; not to be
interpreted of course, as suggesting that within the distribution, there
isn't a single point of failure. Perhaps, from a network operations
point of view, the point needs elaboration.
> o too many foolish people giving their private data to a data miner to
> whom they actually yeild rights to those data and who seems to store
> them for a scary long time.
Naturally, this is a separate issue, and indeed a very prickly one,
which is beyond the charter of NANOG. Therefore, I refrain from penning
any thoughts on it.
All the best,
Robert.
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