[23743] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NETOPS PLANNING: april 23-25 in Washington DC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Balling)
Tue Apr 20 01:07:35 1999
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
To: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Derek Balling <dredd@megacity.org>
In-Reply-To: <990419232458.37a75@SDG.DRA.COM>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
God I love this country. :) What? You want access to your personal
property? Too bad, the SS, I mean Secret Service says "Nein!".
D
At 11:24 PM 4/19/99 -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
>Those ISPs without equipment in Washington DC may not be aware of it,
>but from April 23-25 the city will be a bit chaotic. The NATO meeting
>will have 42 ministerial delegations in town on those dates.
>
>What's this got to do with ISPs? Hopefully not much. However, its
>been a bit difficult getting accurate information from the US Secret
>Service about exactly what streets will be closed, and precisely which
>areas of the city will be in the exclusion zone. For example, it is
>unclear whether we will be able to enter a building that faces a closed
>street. Several major Internet circuits and facilities happen to run
>through and adjacent to these zones.
>
>A backhoe incident is unlikely. However, many facilities will be running
>unattended. It may not be possible for us or other ISPs to get into the
>area or our facilities at 3am to reboot routers. Please have patience,
>if they go down, we will get them back up as soon as we can. I may have
>a bit of trouble trying to explain why a person with a Missouri driver's
>license needs to get into the area.
>
>If you are not familiar with Washington, DC; Mae-east is located well
>away from the excitement and should be unaffected. However, other ISPs
>may also have equipment in the central part of the district, and may have
>similar problems to us.
>--
>Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
> Affiliation given for identification not representation
