Internet Is Too Fragile
from the the-sky-is-falling dept
John Quaterman believes that the internet is too fragile for e-business. He might be a bit biased since his business is rating ISPs - and most of the point of his talk was that we need to use a national ISP rating system. Not that I'm against improving the infrastructure of the internet and making it more stable - but it seems the internet has actually done a pretty good job keeping itself going for quite a while now. If it was so unstable, wouldn't we have seen a major outage?
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