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Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie)
Mon Apr 17 13:13:56 2006

From: "Fergie" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:13:03 GMT
To: David_Hankins@isc.org
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


Oh, that _is_ rich. ;-)

I think a lot of people would love to know just how they plan
to make that happen. :-)

- ferg


-- "David W. Hankins" <David_Hankins@isc.org> wrote:

In a www.washingtonpost.com article:

	http://tinyurl.com/s2jpz

It is said:

	President Bush is expected to approve soon a national pandemic
	influenza response plan that identifies more than 300 specific
	tasks for federal agencies, including [some stuff and] expanding
	Internet capacity to handle what would probably be a flood of
	people working from their home computers.

That's not a lot of detail, and the article only cites www.pandemicflu.g=
ov
as a reference.  They don't appear to have published any detailed plan
that Pres. Bush is evidently about to sign there.  What is published the=
re
feels like background information, and is vaguer still.

Anyone with more information on what they're talking about?

[snip]

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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