RE: [backstage] The browser wars, reloaded?

[Christopher Woods]

 


 

Ah, but that is the very point of the internet.  The very point of IP.  The
very design. 

The net was designed to work even if nukes were dropped on the world.  No
central control means network survival.   
 
 

...Until one of only two core LINX routers has a senior moment or Google
decides to bork its routing ;) (cf. last week's massive disruption and
recent intercontinental slowness courtesy of the Almighty G)
 
The UK still relies on a surprisingly small number of backbone carriers, and
it seems that the UK internet infrastructure is still amazingly brittle. My
impression is that ja.net is still more resilient than the public IP space
by virtue of just how many HE nodes there are throughout the UK - and the
fact that CERN also uses it for GRID). I'd put my money on the Universities
having intersite connectivity longer after the public WWW going down 8)