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Re: XML-dev futures discussion

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• Subject: Re: XML-dev futures discussion
• From: Miles Sabin <miles@m...>
• Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 18:36:21 +0000
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Bill Kearney wrote,
> > That's possible ... but it does seem as tho' the problems affect
> > some people disproportionately. It'd be a bit odd (tho' I guess not
> > impossible) for an outbound issue to discriminate against
> > particular people.
>
> No, it's very possible.  Routing.  If the ISP from the list server
> has issues with routing to other networks this would certainly give
> the appearance of individual bias.  There's enough spread that either
> situation could be the case.

Sure, but a routing issue could manifest itself _anywhere_ along a path 
from OASIS to a subscriber.

It's possible that routing failures at OASIS or OASIS' ISP would 
discriminate against some individuals disproportionately. But it 
strikes me that the more subscriber-specific the outage is, the closer 
a router failure would have to be to that subscriber (ie. further from 
OASIS/their ISP, hence less under their control).

> Though, without proof we're just pulling it out of, well, the ether.

Yup.

Cheers,


Miles

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