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<br><div><div>On 18 nov 2007, at 03.58, Karl Auerbach wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">And if such a failure should occur the damage that would be caused could be catastrophic, amounting to the shutdown of the entire internet.</font></div> </blockquote><br></div><div>this seems a bit of an overstatement.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>a.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br></body></html>