12 Jun
2000
12 Jun
'00
9:48 a.m.
Unnamed Administration sources reported that Steven M. Bellovin said:
There's a lot of interest in Washington in Internet outage reporting, as soon as they can figure out what an outage is and who should report it. But defining the criteria is very hard, as I'm sure I don't have to tell people on this list.
It's easy. An outage is when it's the other guys's fault. It's a transient loss of functionality when it's your nut. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433