On Jul 7, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
In a real crisis, redundancy rules.
... and simplicity.
It's always "fun" when those outages pages rely on sql backends etc,
so they're capable of tens or hundreds of users, so they look fine
normally. When an outage happens and people really need the
information and want it, things stop working.
I've been advocating a distributed system with static HTML pages
being generated and pushed out when things change. Huge load
capability, you can put it anycasted at multiple IXes so it's
geographically and ISP resiliant, larger ISPs can even request to
get their own mirror. Keeping it simple.
This would seem to be ideal for P2P, which is decentralized and has
proven quite resilient under attack.
No takers yet though, people seem to have too much confidence in
complicated, centralized, nice looking solutions.
Have you talked to the guys at BitTorrent ? I could make introductions
during the Stockholm IETF if you need them.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swm...@swm.pp.se
Regards
Marshall Eubanks
AmericaFree.TV
