[55672] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cascading Failures Could Crash the Global Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Danny McPherson)
Thu Feb 6 16:54:42 2003
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Danny McPherson <danny@tcb.net>
Reply-To: danny@tcb.net
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 14:54:49 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
RFC 3439 talks of coupling & amplification and it's relation
to the Internet.
-danny
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> Sigh, there are differences between tightly coupled networks, such as
> the electric power grid and loosely couple networks like the Internet.
> But there are also some similarities, such as electric grids use DC
> interconnections to limit how far AC disturbances propagate; the
> Internet uses AS interconnections to limit IGP disturbances from
> propagating.
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> http://sci.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20686.html
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> The actual article requires payment to read
> http://ojps.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=PLEEE8000066000006065102000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=Yes
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