[24440] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Who are you gonna call?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Spicer)
Tue Jun 29 22:47:12 1999
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 22:46:00 -0400
To: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Alan Spicer <tech@ebiznet.com>
In-Reply-To: <990629171629.3a99@SDG.DRA.COM>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Don't forget OFF-SITE backups in a Fire-Safe Facility of these important
paper/magnetic/electronic (palm pilot, mag tape, optical storage,...)
informations.
At 05:16 PM 6/29/99 -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
>>Seriously, though, there comes a point when you have to just trust in
>>something. The chances of one's phone and palm both going out at the same
>>time are fairly remote, I would expect.
>
>Yes, paper has a 451F temperature problem, and palm pilots and cellphones
>have an EMP problem (not to mention a battery recharger problem). But my
>question wasn't about remembering the numbers. Assume some really experienced
>people are doing this stuff and will make sure the numbers are there and
>the message goes through, no matter what. Even if they have to send a
>messenger on foot to relay the messages like the Roman Empire. I know
>its difficult for engineers, but ignore the people behind the curtain.
>
>Who would you want to be able to call to bootstrap the system back up?
>
>Would you call CERT/CC? Or since they don't actually fix anything, is that
>a wasted call?
>
>Would you call Microsoft? Or since nothing critical on the Internet depends
>on their products, is that a wasted call?
>
>Nortan or Symantec? How about IANA/ICANN? CNN or AOL to say stay off the
>infobahn, accident and workers in the road ahead?
>
>Or instead of corporations, would you rather individuals be on the list?
>
>Is there any consensus, rough or otherwise, of Internet-specific resources
>the network operations community would like to have access? Ask now.
>--
>Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
> Affiliation given for identification not representation
>
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