[81398] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Outage queries and notices (was Re: GBLX congestion in Dallas area)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Wed Jun 8 14:28:03 2005
In-Reply-To: <42A7374A.9000606@he.iki.fi>
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 14:26:23 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jun 8, 2005, at 2:22 PM, 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.
It barely works for any application. I hesitate to think how well it
work work during unforseen failure modes.
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TTFN,
patrick
