[68022] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How relable does the Internet need to be? (Was: Re: Converged
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Fri Feb 27 16:38:57 2004
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:38:16 -0600
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200402271854.i1RIsBS3011652@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 20:42:32 +0200, Petri Helenius said:
>
>>Unless you are the rare beast with Mobile IP this would probably work
>>alright in 99% of the cases.
>
> 20 years ago, 911 was able to say "unless you're the rare beast with a cell
> phone, basing it on the physical service address that the copper runs to would
> probably work alright in 99% of the cases".
>
> Let's not make the same mistake again.
What ever happened to "CarterFone"?