On 06/13/2010 06:13 PM, Bruce Williams wrote: > On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Joe Greco <jgr...@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 > >
