[CII] Advocatus Diaboli

[bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 07:20:55AM -0800, Barry Raveendran Greene wrote:
> 
> 
> > 	i challenge your lema that there exists a global Internet that
> > can
> > 	-unilaterally- fail, taking out all communications over IP.
> 
> Change the crisis to "major failure of the interconnection dependencies of
> the Internet." 
> 
> It is hard to "take out the Internet." It is feasible to have the
> interconnection dependencies massively disrupted. This disruption would
> clear the path to continue with FX's thought experiment. 
> 
> 

	ok... willing suspension of disbelief.... for now.
	I'll note - in passing - that if 99.98%  of the global,
	interconnection dependencies of the Internet on a global scale,
	fail - and in the remaining 0.02% of remaining connectivity,
	I can reach / communicate with everyone I need to - then the
	Internet is not broken - FOR ME.

	Lets face it - at any given point in time, some parts of the Internet
	are not functionally working/connected  to other parts of the Internet.
	Its -always- partially broken.  

	The critical (imho) components of this best-effort service are:

	:: triage - who gets cut off and why
	:: restoration - who gets added first and why

--bill