Level 3 statement concerning 2/23 events (nothing to see, move along)

Wed Feb 25 14:09:36 UTC 2004

Are you sure no one died as a result?  My hobby is volunteering as a 
firefighter and EMT.  If Level3's network sits between a dispatch center 
or mobile data terminal and a key resource, it could be a factor 
(hospital status website, hazardous materials action guide, VoIP link 
that didn't reroute because the control plane was happy but the 
forwarding plane was sad, etc.).

And if the problem could happen to another network tomorrow but could be 
prevented or patched, wouldn't inquiring minds want to know?  Your life 
might be more interesting when the fit hits the shan if you have the 
same vulnerability.

Colin Neeson wrote:

> 
> Because, in the the grand scale scheme of things, it's really not that 
> important.
> 
> No one died because of it, the normal, everyday events of the world went 
> on,
> unaffected by a Level 3 outage...
> 
> Might be nice to know what happened, but my life will certainly not be 
> less interesting by not having that knowledge...