Is your ISP Influenza-ready?

Wed Apr 19 01:53:43 UTC 2006

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:55:11 -1000, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:

> 
> > According to the wikipedia's quote of WHO the weighted average
> > mortality rate, which would be across 50 human cases, is 66% in 2006,
> > and 56% across all 194 cases reported since 2004.
> > 
> >                   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H5N1
> 
> is this different if you run is-is as opposed to ospf?
> 
> as is-is is not over ip, perhaps virii at the ip layer
> are less of a worry to larger isps (who mostly run is-is)?
> 
IS-IS can carry retroviruses, which are RNA-based.

This discussion did start out with operational content....

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb