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1997-07-12 - Re: Routing around damage

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From: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
To: Ryan Anderson <randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu>
Message Hash: a98b78a137889a24ca3802950d9cc0c15bdf7f8f31e18aad97f7548121a588b9
Message ID: <v03102802afecd9bc6add@[10.0.2.15]>
Reply To: <199707112041.WAA07968@basement.replay.com>
UTC Datetime: 1997-07-12 07:00:05 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 15:00:05 +0800

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From: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 15:00:05 +0800
To: Ryan Anderson <randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu>
Subject: Re: Routing around damage
In-Reply-To: <199707112041.WAA07968@basement.replay.com>
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>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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