[CII] terms and conditions

[Paul Schmehl]

--On November 29, 2009 9:37:28 AM -0600 Robert Slade <rmslade at shaw.ca> 
wrote:
>
> So that's your definition of "this."  As you say, you have no need of
> something that my sister in Stavanger or colleagues in Angre dos Reos
> desperately need.
>
> At the moment I am in the Vancouver airport.  It is one of the few that
> provides free Wifi.  (Works great, too.)  I'm fine.  Except for the fact
> that US Airways are clueless, their "checkin" function doesn't work, and
> even their "Contact US" (isn't that just too *cute*!) link is broken.
> Right now, that is part of my critical infrastructure, even though the
> vast majority of the world (including, apparently, their own staff)
> doesn't particularly care.
>

This begs the question when does I become CI?  I submit that one of the 
necessary elements is the importance of the person(s) or the function(s) 
that is/are affected by the loss of service.  It would also appear that 
the number of people or functions affected would have an affect on when 
something transitions from I to CI as well.  So some of the elements in 
the definition of CI would be the number of people affected and the amount 
of functionality affected, it would seem, as well as the importance of the 
person(s) and/or function(s).

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/