Re: East Coast outage?

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com>]

In message <oydr83m2w1m.fsf () bert cs rice edu>, Scott A Crosby writes:
> I don't know, but at least reading this IEEE Spectrum article:
> http://www.ece.umr.edu/courses/f02/ee207/spectrum/Grid/ implies that
> long distance transmission is full of strange and nonlinear effects
> such as 'reactive power', voltage support, and other technical
> concepts that made me conclude that there are nasty details that are
> not widely known. 

Precisely.  Or, to put it in NANOG terms, would you trust a power 
engineer to design BGP 5?  After all, we all know the limitations of 
BGP 4, and it seems pretty obvious how to do routing -- just look for 
least-cost paths...

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb