Re: ietf/istf role in US Disaster?

[Bobby.Addison at mcmail.vanderbilt.edu]

I think Franck has a good idea. I work for Vanderbilt Medical Center in
Nashville, TN. We, like probably most hospitals on the east coast, were
sent some of the victums of this dreadful tragedy. Late yesterday afternoon
all employees were asked to only use the net when absolutely necessary
because employees, understandbly looking for the latest news, were
consuming bandwidth needed for emergency communications.

Bobby Addison
vint cerf <vcerf at MCI.NET> on 09/11/2001 06:53:29 PM





To:  Franck Martin <franck at sopac.org>, ietf at ietf.org
cc:  istf-participants at sparky.listmoms.net



Subject:  Re: ietf/istf role in US Disaster?




I have not had reports of any major outages other than equipment directly
affected by the destruction of the World Trade Center and the strike
against the Pentagon. A great deal of restoration of long haul circuits
has already been accomplished according to my information.

I have been on successful Instant Messaging sessions with people from
around the world, including some of the ICANN board members who are
stranded in various places (including me).

I would be interested to learn more about Internet problems seen by
users over the course of this horrific tragedy.

Many feelings course through my mind as I continue to communicate with
others on Internet and follow events on the television. Words fail to
fully express them but grief and anger mix with an intensity I've never
felt before.

Vint Cerf

At 10:55 PM 9/11/2001 +0000, Franck Martin wrote:
>Hi,
>
>First, all my sympathy to all the people who lost friends and relative in
the US.
>
>Now, I think the ietf/istf has a role to play in this tragedy. The
Internet seems to be to a near halt from where I stand, the Pacific
Islands. I think the Internet has never seen so much overload on its US
section...
>
>I remembered at an Inet meeting that some ietf people were working on
emergency packets over internet to carry message for emergency service
despite overloads... There are may be other similar work...
>
>I think the ietf should gather information, see the problems happening on
the network, and create a workgroup to propose solutions, so that such
things do not ripple on the Internet.
>
>In tokyo at Inet 2000 there were presentations showing how Japan/taiwan
built some emergency networks to inform people about survivors to
disasters/istf, and what has been destroyed etc... Check the proceedings on
the <http://www.isoc.org>www.isoc.org site.
>
>Finnally, I have no idea if there is a relation, but the Pacific Islands
have been experiencing for about a week now problems with many US sites (cf
archives of picisoc mailing list pignet
<http://www.spc.int/picisoc/>www.spc.int/picisoc/)
>
>I think the Internet community has a role to play here...
>
>Cheers.
>Franck at sopac.org