### On Sat, 1 Jun 1996 18:04:56 -0400 (EDT), Tim Bass (@NANOG-LIST)
### <nanog@linux.silkroad.com> wrote to flatline@ironhorse.com (Christopher
### E. Stefan) concerning "Re: MAE-West is up again ( RA Contract Value )":
it seems ironic that projects of such importance to the IP World can be
configured to not to withstand a single platform crash
That statement is untrue. At all our production sites, the service can
withstand a single platform crash. This is because we have redundancy at
those exchange points. However, at MAE-West, there was only one machine
operational. The lack of a redundant machine was what prohibited
declaration of production status.