[89991] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Mon Apr 17 14:22:53 2006
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:22:24 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
Cc: David_Hankins@isc.org, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20060417180541.GC81287@puck.nether.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:05:41 -0400, Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
wrote:
>
> Back to the original question, how well could you cope for such
> an event? It's always challenging to think about what would happen
> as sometimes it includes the unexpected.
>
Quite. One case of bird flu in a major city and you won't need government
intervention to make people telecommute -- large numbers will
independently and spontaneously decide to do so. (Back in the days of
dial-up, I had a lot of trouble connecting to Bell Labs on snow days. No
rule, and the place was officially open for business. But everyone just
did the rational thing.)
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
