Re: GAO report on outages at online trading sites

[David Lesher <wb8foz () nrk com>]

Unnamed Administration sources reported that Steven M. Bellovin said:
> There's a lot of interest in Washington in Internet outage reporting, 
> as soon as they can figure out what an outage is and who should report 
> it.  But defining the criteria is very hard, as I'm sure I don't have 
> to tell people on this list.

It's easy. 

An outage is when it's the other guys's fault.

It's a transient loss of functionality when it's your nut.



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