[135761] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Connectivity status for Egypt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Fri Jan 28 12:51:38 2011
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <2DB499DF412E434C9F2E2917BA540171239466077D@USMACCR01.idgone.int>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:50:39 -0500
To: <JDuffy@nww.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Jim,
On Jan 28, 2011, at 12:43 PM, <JDuffy@nww.com> wrote:
> And would you comply with it if it indeed became law?
For better or worse, companies will comply with lawful requests. In the =
event of US Civil Unrest, I think it would be much harder than in other =
regimes to exert this type of control, and would cause a much broader =
global impact to economic activity. The same would happen with any =
pan-european "blackout".
For the economic reasons alone, I rate the chances of "kill-switch" a =
zero. It makes for great reporting about power, but the practicality is =
zero.
(this does not preclude the US Government from disconnecting *its* =
enterprise networks, as has happened with Bureau of Indian Affairs in =
the past, etc...)
- Jared Mauch=