[143996] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Fri Aug 26 11:38:45 2011
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <4594131.850.1314204061943.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:38:03 -0400
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On Aug 24, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>> From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
>=20
>> On Aug 24, 2011, at 8:55 AM, JC Dill wrote:
>>> On 23/08/11 3:13 PM, William Herrin wrote:
>>>> A. Our structures aren't built to seismic zone standards. Our
>>>> construction workers aren't familiar with*how* to build to seismic
>>>> zone standards. We don't secure equipment inside our buildings to
>>>> seismic zone standards.
>>>=20
>>> They should be.
>>> They should be.
>>> You should.
>>>=20
>>> Earthquakes can happen anywhere. There's no excuse to fail to
>>> build/secure to earthquake standards.
>>=20
>> Tornados can happen anywhere, there's no excuse to fail to
>> build/secure for tornados.
>>=20
>> [Etc.]
>>=20
>> Things that cost money are not done unless the probability of the
>> danger is higher than vanishingly small. This temblor - at 5.8 with =
no
>> injuries or fatalities - was the largest earthquake on the entire =
east
>> coast in 67 years, and the largest in VA in well over a century. =
Think
>> of the _trillions_ of dollars which could have been put into
>> healthcare, public safety, hell, better networking equipment :) we
>> could have used instead of making all buildings on the east coast
>> earthquake safe.
>=20
> False economy. That argument was valid *before* the Internet became a=20=
> Generally Mission Critical Utility. It is now. And, alas, commerce =
being
> what it is, it's not deployed to be *nearly* as failover redundant as =
it
> was designed to be,[1]
The original quote was not limited buildings which house Internet =
infrastructure.
As for whether it is true for "Internet", I would argue the point, but =
ain't got the time.
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
