[127100] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: On the control of the Internet.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Williams)
Sun Jun 13 21:14:58 2010
In-Reply-To: <201006131342.o5DDg18I077624@aurora.sol.net>
From: Bruce Williams <williams.bruce@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:13:54 -0700
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:
>> Generally speaking, it will be treated as damage and routed around.
>
> That fable only really stands a chance when the damage is accidental; in
> the case where such "damage" is being deliberately inflicted, particularl=
y
> by government, it gets more complicated. =A0A lot of the 'net is a little
> more centralized than it ought to be in order to allow the "routed around=
"
> concept to work successfully.
>
> ... JG
BTW, I forget, when was the original ARPANET spec of surviving a
nuclear war tested? I mean, we do know what would happen, right?
Yes, Joe, the ARPANET fable does lives on.
Bruce Williams
