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Re: Risk of Internet collapse grows

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Wed Nov 27 16:25:52 2002

Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:23:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@exigengroup.com>
To: <variable@ednet.co.uk>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211271324570.15745-100000@pachabel.ednet.co.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu



On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 variable@ednet.co.uk wrote:

> It depends which exchange point is hit.  There are a couple of buildings 
> in London which if hit would have a disasterous affect on UK and European 
> peering.

Why hit buildings when removing relatively small number of people will 
render Internet pretty much defunct.  It does not fly itself (courtesy to 
the acute case of featuritis developed by top vendors).

Feeling safer?

--vadim


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