Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today?
Jason Gauthier
jgauthier at lastar.com
Fri Jun 23 14:09:29 UTC 2006
Sounds like our typical customer service calls.
Them: "Is the Internet down?"
Us: "Yes, someone will turn it back on soon."
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On
> Behalf Of Peter Ferrigan
> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 10:04 AM
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today?
>
>
>
> At one of my old jobs, my boss honestly believed that we had
> a 'switch'
> that turned the entire internet off or on. When she was
> having problems accessing her shopping sites, she'd storm in
> the office and say something like 'did you guys turn the the
> internet off again?' <sigh>
>
> Then again, this is the same person that tried to tell me
> that 768 OC-192s are carried on a single DS1..
>
>
> - Peter
>
> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>
> >
> > On Jun 23, 2006, at 12:45 AM, Sean Donelan wrote:
> >
> >
> > I shudder to think what would happen under large scale
> attack if one of the
> > CEOs in that room had "responsibility" for the correct
> functioning of the
> > "Internet".
> >
> > This definitely falls into the "Just Doesn't Get It" category.
> >
> > --
> > TTFN,
> > patrick
>
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