[85661] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Time for a real Internet highway (?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Schwartz)
Sat Oct 15 01:34:06 2005
From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:29:30 -0700
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0510142216020.21373@kungfunix.net>
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> I wonder what the author would have said if major medical facilities would
> have had casualties because of the Level3/Cogentco debacle. Say a surgeon
> speaking via VoIP to another doctor about some brain surgery and the
> patient flatlines. What about a daytrader about to click on a nice sized
> trade... Oops.
I think that mission-critical Internet doesn't exist. I have no objection
to creating it, but I do have an objection to replacing the best-effort
Internet with a mission-critical one. There are legitimate reasons to want a
best-effort service at the lowest possible cost. Because there isn't a
mission-critical Internet yet, it is a serious mistake to put mission
critical services such as the ones you speak of on the Internet.
DS
