Fiber cut in SF area

Sat Apr 11 18:30:54 UTC 2009

> The real problem is route redundancy.  This is what the original contract
> from DARPA to BBM, to create the Internet, was about!

s/DARPA/ARPA/; s/BBM/BBN/; s/Internet/ARPAnet/.

BBN won the contract to build the first four IMPs.

Theory and research about it is older, look at:
http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/LK/Bib/REPORT/PhD/proposal-01.html

But you are right, redundancy is the issue, cost is the factor.

Jorge.