[29609] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PGP kerserver infrastructure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Thu Jun 29 11:32:34 2000
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: John Fraizer <nanog@enterzone.net>
Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>,
"teun, Tilburg University" <Teun.Nijssen@kub.nl>,
nanog@merit.edu, pgp-keyserver-folk@flame.org
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:29:39 -0400
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In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000629104337.11811B-100000@Overkill.EnterZone.Net>,
John Fraizer writes:
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>
>While I agree with the statement, I take exception to any notion that
>_any_ service we provide would be "marginal." Thus far, my network has a
>higher uptime percentage than any carrier we interconnect with, period,
>the end. We planned, built and operate a regional exchange, including the
>route servers, that has been live 24/7 for 11 months. That is 0% downtime
>for the route-server platform and the exchange fabric.
The issue isn't so much network availability -- though a key server
designed to meet the needs of NANOG folks is interesting, since they
most need to talk to each other when the net isn't working well -- as
service availability. That has all sorts of implications at the
application level.
--Steve Bellovin
