[161909] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: So how big was it *really*?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Thu Mar 28 09:43:17 2013
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:42:56 +0000
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On Mar 28, 2013, at 8:29 PM, Harry Hoffman wrote:
> http://gizmodo.com/5992652/that-internet-war-apocalypse-is-a-lie
Yes and no. =20
There's been quite a bit of exaggerated (and unhelpful, IMHO) hype around t=
his entire episode from the outset; by the same token, the attacks did prod=
uce non-inconsiderable disruptive collateral effects in EMEA and APAC for v=
arious intervals, which would not likely be observed by an American sitting=
in his home in America watching online American content and accessing Amer=
ican applications and services hosted on American servers located in Americ=
an IDCs in America.
Some folks don't seem to grasp the whole 'global' notion of the Internet, a=
nd the facet that not everyone who uses or does something on the Internet r=
esides in America.
;>
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