Routing around damage

Steve Schear azur at netcom.com
Sat Jul 12 00:00:05 PDT 1997



>On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Anonymous wrote:
>
>> Remember "the internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around
>> it"?  I'd be happy with an internet that interprets DAMAGE as damage and
>> routes around it.
>
>It does.. It's just that when you lose a *large* access point, the impact
>is significant.  (I think that's what happened here...)

Seems to me that having only a few, heavily trafficed, NAPs is a
topological weakness in the Net which needs to be delt with soon.

--Steve








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