[191803] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Tue Sep 27 11:58:17 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 17:49:52 +0200
In-Reply-To: <E6DA742C-25F7-4D8F-9171-1C1A8114E008@arbor.net> (Roland
Dobbins's message of "Tue, 27 Sep 2016 22:37:44 +0700")
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
* Roland Dobbins:
> On 27 Sep 2016, at 12:17, Sam Silvester wrote:
>
>> or call their electricity retailer/distributer
>
> This is the problematic case that is, unfortunately, the default.
>
> People tend to view anything related to 'the Internet' as a utility,
> and for consumers and SMBs, they typically have a single provider,
> just as they typically do for electricity and water.
Most people over here have at least two providers of water and
Internet (although the second one is perhaps sufficient for brushing
your teeth, but certainly not for a shower or a bath).
