[60804] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: East Coast outage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Sat Aug 16 08:51:18 2003
To: Scott A Crosby <scrosby@cs.rice.edu>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 08:46:58 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In message <oydr83m2w1m.fsf@bert.cs.rice.edu>, Scott A Crosby writes:
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>
>I don't know, but at least reading this IEEE Spectrum article:
>http://www.ece.umr.edu/courses/f02/ee207/spectrum/Grid/ implies that
>long distance transmission is full of strange and nonlinear effects
>such as 'reactive power', voltage support, and other technical
>concepts that made me conclude that there are nasty details that are
>not widely known.
>
Precisely. Or, to put it in NANOG terms, would you trust a power
engineer to design BGP 5? After all, we all know the limitations of
BGP 4, and it seems pretty obvious how to do routing -- just look for
least-cost paths...
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
