Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today?

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
> 