On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Randy Bush <ra...@psg.com> wrote: > [....] the internet is a wonderful > demonstration of building a reliable network out of reliable components. > > but what we have with google mail (and apps) is two scary problems > > o way too many users relying on a single point of failure. so it > makes the nyt when it breaks because of the number of users > affected, and
I choose to not assume to "what/which single point of failure" this reference by Randy applies. However, we can take confidence in the fact that Google's Gmail service architecture is distributed; not to be interpreted of course, as suggesting that within the distribution, there isn't a single point of failure. Perhaps, from a network operations point of view, the point needs elaboration. > o too many foolish people giving their private data to a data miner to > whom they actually yeild rights to those data and who seems to store > them for a scary long time. Naturally, this is a separate issue, and indeed a very prickly one, which is beyond the charter of NANOG. Therefore, I refrain from penning any thoughts on it. All the best, Robert. --
