On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 07:38:12PM -0500, Dean Anderson wrote:
In aviation and probably the power industry, there is sense (and a reality) that lives and property are at stake. While the same may soon be true of the internet, there is still a perception that no one dies if the 'internet is down', and no property is destroyed though income is certainly lost. So there is no compelling need to force people to cooperate.
So, if my company loses $5M because the net falls over, and I get fired, and end up on the street, having lost my house, family, dog, pickup truck, and beer, that's not important enough to prevent? Got it now.
Even the FAA's enforcement is for the most part pretty lassiz faire. It is well known in aviation circles that FAA regulations are "written in blood", by analyzing accidents and developing a set of rules to avoid them. Failure to follow the rules may result in your own death, and possibly others. Death is a pretty severe penalty. Many FAA enforcement actions are 'post-crash'. The rules aren't there to satisfy the ego of a bureaucrat, and the penalties are enforced more harshly by nature than by the FAA.
Tell it to Bob Hoover... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Buy copies of The New Hackers Dictionary. The Suncoast Freenet Give them to all your friends. Tampa Bay, Florida http://www.ccil.org/jargon/ +1 813 790 7592