[132994] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The scale of streaming video on the Internet.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Dec 3 09:45:48 2010
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:44:56 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawgster@gmail.com>
>
> >>> As to the emergency broadcast system, yeah, that's going to lose.
> >>
> >> Didn't we already replace that with twitter?
> >
> > quake/tsunami warnings flow via email rather quickly.
>
> Old skool.
>
> Twitter is much faster:
>
> http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/government-disaster-advisors-twitter-ha
> cked-used-to-send-tsunami-warning/408447
Ok, let's go here.
The problem, as a few seconds thought would reveal, is one of *provenance*.
You could call it authentication if you wanted to, but to the *end-user*,
what the authentication *authenticates* is the provenance. And anti-spoofing
is pretty important, when the message might be "run for the hills; the
bombers is comin'!"
Well, ok, more to the point: "This is the Pinellas County Emergency Manager;
I'm declaring an official Level 3 evacuation ahead of Hurricane Guillermo."
You can put it on Twitter... but you can't *only* put it on Twitter.
Cheers,
-- jra
