[29112] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GAO report on outages at online trading sites
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Mon Jun 12 09:44:02 2000
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: jlewis@lewis.org
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 09:41:12 -0400
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006120053450.25904-100000@redhat1.mmaero.com>, jlew
is@lewis.org writes:
>
>But what does any of this have to do with operating a network? Are you
>saying we're next and will eventually have to report all outages to the
>man?
Yes.
There's a lot of interest in Washington in Internet outage reporting,
as soon as they can figure out what an outage is and who should report
it. But defining the criteria is very hard, as I'm sure I don't have
to tell people on this list.
--Steve Bellovin
