Re: On the control of the Internet.

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

On 06/13/2010 06:13 PM, Bruce Williams wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Joe Greco <jgreco () ns sol net> wrote:
> > > Generally speaking, it will be treated as damage and routed around.
> >
> > That fable only really stands a chance when the damage is accidental; in
> > the case where such "damage" is being deliberately inflicted, particularly
> > by government, it gets more complicated.  A lot of the 'net is a little
> > more centralized than it ought to be in order to allow the "routed around"
> > concept to work successfully.
> >
> > ... JG
>
> BTW, I forget, when was the original ARPANET spec of surviving a
> nuclear war tested? I mean, we do know what would happen, right?

Paul baran's rand paper was on survivable networks. The arpanet was not
that network.

> Yes, Joe, the ARPANET fable does lives on.
>
> Bruce Williams