[ga] Internet stability

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

As of midnight, tonight, 4 million users, just in the SF Bay Area, may lose
their internet connection due to the business failure of Excite @ home.

Lately, we've been talking about what matters. Well, this is what matters to
the Internet public. This has been seen coming for almost four months. Has
the ICANN even tried to do anything? Yet, ICANN claims to help stabilize the
Internet. The territory that ICANN claims, doesn't touch any part of this.

This may be the largest outage in the history of the Internet. Heretofore,
the NorthPoint failure may have had claim to that honor. However, unlike
NorthPoint, Excite has mostly residential customers. Ergo, the impact on
business isn't as great. DSL providers can expect many new customers as a
result, even if Excite doesn't pull the plug tonight.

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R O E L A N D  M J  M E Y E R
Managing Director
Morgan Hill Software Company
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fax: +1 925 373 9781 
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