Michael Thomas wrote:
I think that Randy might be conflating single point of failure with "resilience". Google, distributed on every level as it is, is still just one operator and in this case the lemmings faithfully followed each other into the sea. We've been on an anti-resilience binge for quite some time, accelerated to warp speed by the advent of the Internet itself. There's something to be said about not having all of your police scanners, etc, etc on the internet from a resilience standpoint, but the siren call is strong for good reasons too.
Mike
As I have mentioned to Randy separately, my interest was to understand whether he had made the "single point of failure" reference colloquially, or in a /critical infrastructure/ context. Some treat, and relate to the Internet as though it is a part of /"critical infrastructures."/ I simply wished to better understand the point of reference. A caveat... in stating this above... it is not a personal intention, to now originate a vacuous and malodorous thread on NANOG regarding the Internet's place in critical infrastructures. Surely, that cannot be resolved here, in this community. Regards, Robert. --