[52160] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Erik Lindqvist)
Tue Sep 17 14:44:03 2002
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 14:49:08 +0200
Cc: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
To: JC Dill <nanog@vo.cnchost.com>
From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20020916081956.02ec6340@pop3.vo.cnchost.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On m=E5ndag, sep 16, 2002, at 18:02 Europe/Stockholm, JC Dill wrote:
> When I got back to the office, I learned that the big screen TV that=20=
> had previously been located in the exercise room had been moved to the=20=
> center of the office so that everyone could more easily see it, and=20
> everyone could hear it. Meanwhile, they all had high speed Internet=20=
> connections to the computers sitting on their desks. Why bring in the=20=
> TV if the 'net was "one of the prime sources of information"?
>
>
You actually more or less described what I meant, although I wasn't=20
very clear. In principle the Internet was the place where people went=20
for information, which is exactly what you saw - the congestion and=20
overload. My initial point was then, that as this seems to be the case,=20=
perhaps we should engineer the network to meet these demands.
- kurtis -