[136765] in North American Network Operators' Group
OT: (was Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Auer)
Fri Feb 4 18:15:24 2011
From: Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 10:14:27 +1100
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On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 14:27 -0800, Matthew Petach wrote:
> As has been noted previously, it's all about your frame of
> reference. If the US is removed from the Internet, it does not
> mean the Internet stops working; from the perspective of the
> rest of the world, the Internet is still there.
Many years ago, there was a headline in the London Times:
"Fog In Channel, Europe Cut Off"
Regards, K.
PS: Might be an apocryphal story :-)
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