[52108] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Erik Lindqvist)
Mon Sep 16 07:15:03 2002
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:14:01 +0200
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: <20020916102524.D26474-100000@sequoia.muada.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>
> That's a good question. Is the net really a criticial resource? If a
> life
> gets saved through involvement of the internet, it is news. Lifes are
> saved by calling for assistence through the telephone network every day
> all over the world as a matter of routine.
Well, it's more a question of what you want the Internet to become? We
can't expect to
have better quality than the most critical application that we run over
it....
> It's not how much something is used, but how bad it would be to go
> without
> it. During september 11th, the phone service didn't work very well, and
> the internet did a lot better. I think just about anyone would have
> traded
> the latter for the former in a second.
I think we are using the word "emergency" with different meanings here.
Assume that a nation is cut of from it's
Internet access in one way or the other due to war, natural disasters
etc. In these scenarios a not functioning
Internet might actually be a problem due to the time of the outage.
>
>> In the event of a emergency, I would very much like to be as
>> able to reach my bank via the net as walking into their offices.
>
> Yes, because banks are such a critical resource when there is an
> emergency...
If there was a natural disaster and I could not reach my banks office I
would very much like to
be able to use the on-line bank instead...
>
> that was in the good old days
> when business was booming. I'm sure they're cutting corners left right
> and
> center at the moment.
>
>
Agreed - and this is where I think we have real problem....
- kurtis -
