Re: Who are you gonna call?

[Alan Spicer <tech () ebiznet com>]

Don't forget OFF-SITE backups in a Fire-Safe Facility of these important
paper/magnetic/electronic (palm pilot, mag tape, optical storage,...) 
informations.

At 05:16 PM 6/29/99 -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
> > Seriously, though, there comes a point when you have to just trust in 
> > something. The chances of one's phone and palm both going out at the same
> > time are fairly remote, I would expect. 
>
> Yes, paper has a 451F temperature problem, and palm pilots and cellphones
> have an EMP problem (not to mention a battery recharger problem).  But my
> question wasn't about remembering the numbers.  Assume some really experienced
> people are doing this stuff and will make sure the numbers are there and
> the message goes through, no matter what.  Even if they have to send a
> messenger on foot to relay the messages like the Roman Empire.  I know
> its difficult for engineers, but ignore the people behind the curtain.
>
> Who would you want to be able to call to bootstrap the system back up?
>
> Would you call CERT/CC?  Or since they don't actually fix anything, is that
> a wasted call?
>
> Would you call Microsoft?  Or since nothing critical on the Internet depends
> on their products, is that a wasted call?
>
> Nortan or Symantec?  How about IANA/ICANN?  CNN or AOL to say stay off the
> infobahn, accident and workers in the road ahead?
>
> Or instead of corporations, would you rather individuals be on the list?
>
> Is there any consensus, rough or otherwise, of Internet-specific resources
> the network operations community would like to have access?  Ask now.
> -- 
> Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
>  Affiliation given for identification not representation
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