ietf/istf role in US Disaster?

[Franck Martin]

Hi,

First, all my sympathy to all the people who lost friends and relative in the US.

Now, I think the ietf/istf has a role to play in this tragedy. The Internet seems to be to a near halt from where I stand, the Pacific Islands. I think the Internet has never seen so much overload on its US section...

I remembered at an Inet meeting that some ietf people were working on emergency packets over internet to carry message for emergency service despite overloads... There are may be other similar work...

I think the ietf should gather information, see the problems happening on the network, and create a workgroup to propose solutions, so that such things do not ripple on the Internet.

In tokyo at Inet 2000 there were presentations showing how Japan/taiwan built some emergency networks to inform people about survivors to disasters/istf, and what has been destroyed etc... Check the proceedings on the www.isoc.org site.

Finnally, I have no idea if there is a relation, but the Pacific Islands have been experiencing for about a week now problems with many US sites (cf archives of picisoc mailing list pignet www.spc.int/picisoc/)

I think the Internet community has a role to play here...

Cheers.
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