[29113] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GAO report on outages at online trading sites
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Mon Jun 12 09:50:01 2000
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 09:48:45 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <20000612134113.7324835DC2@smb.research.att.com> from "Steven M. Bellovin" at Jun 12, 2000 09:41:12 AM
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Unnamed Administration sources reported that Steven M. Bellovin said:
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> 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.
It's easy.
An outage is when it's the other guys's fault.
It's a transient loss of functionality when it's your nut.
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