Re: For want of a single ethernet card, an airport was lost ...

2007-08-18 Thread Lixia Zhang
On Aug 18, 2007, at 12:09 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: This is rich .. LAX airport shut down for hours because of a PC with a duff network card. Now I wonder which major contractor has the contract to set up and run the network at LAX, and how much in damages and SLA costs he is

Re: the iab simplifies internet architecture!

2005-11-10 Thread Lixia Zhang
On Nov 10, 2005, at 9:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 07:10:13PM -1000, Randy Bush wrote: reported from tonight's iitf iab (internet archetecture board) plenary. proclaimed by an esteemed iab member from the podium: it is bad in the long term to add hierarchy to

Re: Fundamental changes to Internet architecture

2005-07-01 Thread Lixia Zhang
On Jul 1, 2005, at 4:29 AM, Simon Waters wrote: On Friday 01 Jul 2005 11:28 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess I'm not the only one who thinks that we could benefit from some fundamental changes to Internet architecture. http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,68004,00.html?

Re: Fundamental changes to Internet architecture

2005-07-01 Thread Lixia Zhang
On Jul 1, 2005, at 12:53 PM, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: Yeah, I saw that... With all respect to Dave, and not to sound too skeptical, but we're pretty far along in our current architecture to fundamentally change, don't you think (emphasis on fundamentally)? - ferg Many people probably