Is it time for an disruption analysis working group for the Internet?

Thu Nov 12 09:04:54 UTC 1998

On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Sean Donelan wrote:

> Have we reached a critical mass of multi-provider disruptions to make
> it possible to do something yet?
> 
> Most networked industries have some group which collects and analyzes
> information about disruptions.  What's interesting is how often similar
> disruptions had precursor events across multiple different service
> providers. For example, there have been several cases in the last few
[...]

How is this handled in other networked industries? I'm sure that the same
issues of proprietary information and public humliation exist there; how
do they deal with it?

Pete.