From the closing paragraphs of:

http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_10/wiggins/index.html "The effects of September 11th on the Leading Search Engine" "As we have seen, the Internet played an important role in the dissemination of urgently-sought news about the unfolding events. Some aspects of the design of the Internet make it very effective in crisis. An important example is the inherent ability of TCP/IP to re-route and deliver data when important communications links are broken, as in war, or as in the September 11 tragedy. This robustness is not surprising, given that TCP/IP was born out of DoD-funded research." Are these principles being eroded as we type? In any event, Kudos to all of you NANOGers, for all of the work that you do each day. Frank Coluccio DTI Consulting