[96138] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Thu Apr 19 12:57:50 2007
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:53:42 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net>
Cc: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>,
Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>,
Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>, Andre Oppermann <nanog-list@nrg4u.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5DE76529-7EFD-4C97-B1F4-DF24BE1F4639@kumari.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:00:53 -0400
Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> wrote:
>
> There was also an issue where one of the large manufacturers of
> (binary) CAMs received a batch of polyimide that was contaminated
> with an alpa-emitter (for some reason thorium oxide springs to mind)
> and their quality control didn't catch it... As far as I know the
> problem was identified before any products with the CAMs were
> shipped, but I had an order held up while the vendor tried to source
> alternate parts...
Contamination by alpha emitters was a major problem some years ago.
Manufacturers had to change their formulations to avoid the problem.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
