[128243] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Web expert on his 'catastrophe' key for the internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Thornton)
Wed Jul 28 03:39:01 2010
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:38:53 +0100
From: Paul Thornton <prt@prt.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4C4FDC33.5070309@consolejunkie.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Leen Besselink wrote:
> On 07/28/2010 02:21 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>>
>> That plus the phrase "restarting the Internet" is more than a little bit
>> misleading.
>>
>>
>
> If you think that is misleading, you would want to see this article:
>
> http://www.metro.co.uk/news/836210-brit-given-a-key-to-unlock-the-internet
Yes, we've been howling with derision about that on this side of the
pond for the last couple of days.
Putting the source into perspective though, The Metro isn't known for
quality journalism - its a free paper liberally scattered around London
(usually found as entertaining reading material when you're stuck on the
tube going somewhere late at night).
Paul.
