[CII] terms and conditions

[bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 02:22:40PM +0200, Gadi Evron wrote:
> bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> >	I have "everything you need to make this work".  I have no need of 
> >	Brazilian or Norwegian infrastructure.  They are not critical to me.
> 
> What would happen to your connectivity if the Brazilian and Norwegian 
> localized internet infrastructures were to stop working?

	nothing.  zero.  nada.  zilch.
	
	not critical to me.   the point being, critical has a reference,
	usually an end user.

	and any given end user is either completely expendable or is the
	focus of connectivity.  presume three endusers... Aaron, a homeless
	47 year old man living on the streets of Detroit,  Barak, the 
	president of the United States, and Marline, project manager fo the
	Direct Marketing Assoc.   Are they equally entitled to access to 
	Critical Internet Infrastructure?  Do they perceive the reach/scope
	of Critical Internet Infrastructure in the same way?  What are the
	results of them not having access?


	John Ozman raised the (very germane) point of triage.  Who gets 
	cut off when and who gets restored first and why?

	Critical implies weakness.  A single point of failure, a locus of
	control.  Where those things emerge, there is a strong, almost overpowering
	drive to capture and monitize that locus or to use it to exploit
	the infrastrucuture to impose a given policy framework.

	From a strictly engineering POV, the "right" thing to do, to ensure
	resilience and robustness is to work at reducing/minimizing/defusing
	critical points.  IMHO of course :)

--bill