[90981] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Gauthier)
Fri Jun 23 10:10:06 2006
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:09:29 -0400
From: "Jason Gauthier" <jgauthier@lastar.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Sounds like our typical customer service calls.
Them: "Is the Internet down?"
Us: "Yes, someone will turn it back on soon."
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> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On=20
> Behalf Of Peter Ferrigan
> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 10:04 AM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today?
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> At one of my old jobs, my boss honestly believed that we had=20
> a 'switch'=20
> that turned the entire internet off or on. When she was=20
> having problems accessing her shopping sites, she'd storm in=20
> the office and say something like 'did you guys turn the the=20
> internet off again?' <sigh>
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> Then again, this is the same person that tried to tell me=20
> that 768 OC-192s are carried on a single DS1..
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> - Peter
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> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
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> > On Jun 23, 2006, at 12:45 AM, Sean Donelan wrote:
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> > I shudder to think what would happen under large scale=20
> attack if one of the=20
> > CEOs in that room had "responsibility" for the correct=20
> functioning of the=20
> > "Internet".
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> > This definitely falls into the "Just Doesn't Get It" category.
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> > TTFN,
> > patrick
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