[90029] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Tue Apr 18 21:54:12 2006
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:53:43 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: bzs@world.std.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <17477.35439.885164.327709@roam.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:55:11 -1000, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>
> > According to the wikipedia's quote of WHO the weighted average
> > mortality rate, which would be across 50 human cases, is 66% in 2006,
> > and 56% across all 194 cases reported since 2004.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H5N1
>
> is this different if you run is-is as opposed to ospf?
>
> as is-is is not over ip, perhaps virii at the ip layer
> are less of a worry to larger isps (who mostly run is-is)?
>
IS-IS can carry retroviruses, which are RNA-based.
This discussion did start out with operational content....
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
