>Nice piece of writing, Howard.
>
>There is a point you make ( English commons ) which sounds an awful lot like
>"democracy lasts only until the participants realize they can vote
>themselves privileges, at which point it turns quickly to anarchy"
> paraphrased badly, I'm sure )
De Toqueville sa
Being in California, I get to see my UPSes tested a lot if I like it or not.
In my limited global BGP experience, one problem is the limitations on
Independent, Portable IP space. If ARIN is unwilling to assign less than a
/20, then you're forced to use Provider non-Portable IP space. Furthermo
(with a red face, reconstructing my original response. We're having
a violent thunderstorm, and the power went out. I saved a lot of
things, but trusted my UPS. Unfortunately, the UPS is much more
helpful when the CPU is plugged into one of the battery backup
outlets, not a surge protector ou
Well, you're preaching to the choir, but I have a couple comments in line
nonetheless. A really technical discussion would require more knowledge of
statistics, queuing theory, etc., than I have. But it can't hurt to discuss
the issues at a high level also.
At 05:44 PM 5/22/01, John Hardman wr
Hi
Keep in mind that many people site the phone as a highly available system,
but do you know that it is highly available? People get the impression that
the phone system is very reliable because they are used to hearing a dial
tone when they pick it up. But most people are not on the phone 24x7
>Aside from Priscilla (not Geoff Huston): What if the phone system had
>evolved this way? How many companies have redundant trunk lines? Don't
we
>just assume that the "phone company" will always provide service? We
don't
>multihome to the phone system, (do we?)
[Warning: Slightly OT]
Actuall
While we're on the subject of scalability, check out this fascinating
article by Geoff Huston on BGP scalability. He studied the effects of a
denser, more meshed edge of the Internet (due to small networks
increasingly multihoming) on the growth of the BGP routing table. He
comments that servi
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