[73685] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Erik Lindqvist)
Wed Sep 1 03:56:21 2004
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0408241254030.12886@x53.ripe.net>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 09:55:40 +0200
To: Bruce Campbell <bc-nanog@vicious.dropbear.id.au>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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On 2004-08-24, at 12.58, Bruce Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Tony Li wrote:
>
>> Did they arrest the crew? They have grounds on negligence
>> charges...
>
> The crew of the ship for having dropped anchor presumably in defiance
> of
> 'Undersea cable, Do not anchor here' signs, or the telco for having
> sited
> a critical communications cable near/beneath a busy port ?
....if that was the criteria, all of the UK would only be connected to
the US. And having worked for someone who owned sea-cables mainland-UK,
that was occasionally a tempting idea :-)
- - kurtis - / Running
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