[81397] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Outage queries and notices (was Re: GBLX congestion in Dallas area)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Wed Jun 8 14:25:44 2005
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 14:25:17 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <42A7374A.9000606@he.iki.fi>; from Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi> on Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:22:02PM +0300
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:22:02PM +0300, Petri Helenius wrote:
> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> >The Internet needs a PA system.
>
> There is this sparsely deployed technology called multicast which would
> work for this application.
Well, that's fine, at the transport layer, but I think more an
application layer solution is called for.
Something akin to news.announce.important on Usenet?
Cheers,
-- jra
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