[3341] in North American Network Operators' Group
Hurricanes redefined!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Mon Jul 8 14:16:10 1996
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 10:52:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
The official definition of a hurricane is winds in excess of 5 km/hr
for a duration of at least 1 hour. Read all about it at
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/metcalfe/metcalfe.htm
Now there is a germ of a good idea here. How about defining a standard
terminology for outage events that could be used in a daily Internet
weather report. Something that is a little more representative of reality,
i.e. in a hurricane all human activity pretty well ceases outside of a
small portion of your own home.
This would, of course, require an integrated reporting system whereby all
NSP's report outages, flaps, etc. to a centralised info gathering place
which can then graph them, analyse them, categorize them and pulverise
them.
Michael Dillon ISP & Internet Consulting
Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049
http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com
