[117145] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Issues with Gmail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Mathews (OSIA))
Wed Sep 2 14:32:41 2009
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:31:35 -0400
From: "Robert Mathews (OSIA)" <mathews@hawaii.edu>
In-reply-to: <4A9EB141.4070407@mtcc.com>
To: North American Network Operators Group <Nanog@merit.edu>
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Michael Thomas wrote:
> I think that Randy might be conflating single point of failure with
> "resilience". Google, distributed on every level as it is, is still
> just one operator and in this case the lemmings faithfully followed
> each other into the sea. We've been on an anti-resilience binge for
> quite some time, accelerated to warp speed by the advent of the
> Internet itself. There's something to be said about not having all of
> your
> police scanners, etc, etc on the internet from a resilience
> standpoint, but the siren call is strong for good reasons too.
>
> Mike
As I have mentioned to Randy separately, my interest was to understand
whether he
had made the "single point of failure" reference colloquially, or in a
/critical infrastructure/
context.
Some treat, and relate to the Internet as though it is a part of
/"critical infrastructures."/
I simply wished to better understand the point of reference. A
caveat... in stating this above...
it is not a personal intention, to now originate a vacuous and
malodorous thread on NANOG
regarding the Internet's place in critical infrastructures. Surely,
that cannot be resolved here,
in this community.
Regards,
Robert.
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