London incidents

Sat Jul 9 23:05:22 UTC 2005

On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Gadi Evron wrote:
> I wonder, has anyone ever prepared a best practices paper of some sort
> as to what can be expected in cases of big emergencies and mass
> hysteria, for networks?

Yes, there have been several studies and papers about what happens to
networks during public emergencies.  Look at the FCC NRIC (www.nric.org)
and the US National Academies of Science.

Unfortunately, in the USA at least, the government is fixated on trying
to force a particular "solution" instead of trying to understand the
different problems.  Some people think pre-emption is the answer, and have
hired numerous consultants to try to push it through any standards group
they can find.