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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=862493016-02122009>Something for the IGC to address...</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr lang=en-us class=OutlookMessageHeader align=left><FONT
color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=823561816-02122009>A bit of a
warning re: a privatized infrastructure for the critical elements of an
Information Society especially as things are being pushed "into the cloud"
at an alarming rate.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=823561816-02122009>So
what happens when, banking, government, retail, education, health,
telecommunications etc.etc. are all effectively on the Internet/cloud
including their transactions, information flow and records and the Internet goes
down as below... and your friendly local privatized service provider (whose
ownership is buried under a dozen layers of tax shelter dummied corporations
ultimately housed in a post office box in the Caymans), and their outsourced
help desk doesn't/won't answer even if you can find an operating (non-Internet
based) phone ... </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=823561816-02122009>Or
have I missed something.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=823561816-02122009>Hmmmm....</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=823561816-02122009>M</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=823561816-02122009></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr lang=en-us class=OutlookMessageHeader align=left><FONT size=2
face=Tahoma>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Dave Farber
[mailto:dave@farbe<SPAN class=823561816-02122009><FONT color=#0000ff
face=Arial> i </FONT></SPAN>r.net] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December
01, 2009 12:10 PM<BR><B>To:</B> ip<BR><B>Subject:</B> [IP] A Ridiculous Failure
of Critical Infrastructure<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>On 12/1/09 2:54 AM, "Matt Larsen - Lists" <<A
href="mailto:lists@MANAGEISP.COM">lists@MANAGEISP.COM</A>>
wrote:</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Some kind of combination of failure
between Charter and Qwest has left</SPAN><BR><SPAN>tens of thousands of people
in Nebraska without Internet and has</SPAN><BR><SPAN>disrupted the Internet and
phone services for thousands more. Right</SPAN><BR><SPAN>now,
the outage is going on 12 hours and there is no ETA for repair
in</SPAN><BR><SPAN>sight.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>The word coming down
is that the outage is on a Qwest fiber, but it</SPAN><BR><SPAN>looks to me like
both parties should be on the hot seat for not having</SPAN><BR><SPAN>the
ability to route around the problem. There was a four hour
outage</SPAN><BR><SPAN>on Charter a week ago that was caused by a fiber cut in
Gothenburg,</SPAN><BR><SPAN>Nebraska.</SPAN><BR><SPAN>That one killed everything
west of the cut, but it was small potatoes</SPAN><BR><SPAN>compared to this one.
Is this truly the level of performance that we</SPAN><BR><SPAN>can
expect from our major Internet backbone providers? It took
me</SPAN><BR><SPAN>about 10 seconds to re-route my traffic to a backup provider
- you would</SPAN><BR><SPAN>think that a couple of multimillion dollar companies
would be able to</SPAN><BR><SPAN>sort out a problem of this nature in a
reasonable amount of time. The</SPAN><BR><SPAN>small CLEC that I use
for my backup connection had enough capacity to</SPAN><BR><SPAN>route around the
problem and was even able to lend me a little bit after</SPAN><BR><SPAN>5pm when
the traffic on their network (mostly businesses) dropped off.</SPAN><BR><SPAN>It
isn't rocket science to figure out how to route around an
outage.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Almost as frustrating is that there was
NO news about the outages</SPAN><BR><SPAN>anywhere except on the social
networking sites (Facebook, Twitter).</SPAN><BR><SPAN>One TV station in
Hastings, NE put up a short story on their website,</SPAN><BR><SPAN>but I got
more news from the tweets and FB posts that people where</SPAN><BR><SPAN>posting
from their cell phones than I did from anywhere else. None
of</SPAN><BR><SPAN>the network outage sites have any news about
this.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Could this be a harbinger of things to
come? I am feeling pretty</SPAN><BR><SPAN>thankful right now that I
have a choice in backbone providers and that I</SPAN><BR><SPAN>kept a second
one. Diversity is a good thing, and this is a
great</SPAN><BR><SPAN>example of why we need competition and multiple options
for Internet.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Matt Larsen</SPAN><BR><SPAN><A
href="http://vistabeam.com">vistabeam.com</A></SPAN><BR></DIV>
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