Re: Level 3 statement concerning 2/23 events (nothing to see, move along)

["Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve () telecomplete co uk>]

So cmon, forget the statement, anyone know what actually happened.. ?

Steve

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Pete Templin wrote:

> Are you sure no one died as a result?  My hobby is volunteering as a 
> firefighter and EMT.  If Level3's network sits between a dispatch center 
> or mobile data terminal and a key resource, it could be a factor 
> (hospital status website, hazardous materials action guide, VoIP link 
> that didn't reroute because the control plane was happy but the 
> forwarding plane was sad, etc.).
>
> And if the problem could happen to another network tomorrow but could be 
> prevented or patched, wouldn't inquiring minds want to know?  Your life 
> might be more interesting when the fit hits the shan if you have the 
> same vulnerability.
>
> Colin Neeson wrote:
>
> > Because, in the the grand scale scheme of things, it's really not that 
> > important.
> >
> > No one died because of it, the normal, everyday events of the world went 
> > on,
> > unaffected by a Level 3 outage...
> >
> > Might be nice to know what happened, but my life will certainly not be 
> > less interesting by not having that knowledge...