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Generally speaking, it will be treated as damage and routed around.

That fable only really stands a chance when the damage is accidental; in
the case where such "damage" is being deliberately inflicted, particularly
by government, it gets more complicated. A lot of the 'net is a little
more centralized than it ought to be in order to allow the "routed around"
concept to work successfully.

... JG

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BTW, I forget, when was the original ARPANET spec of surviving a
nuclear war tested? I mean, we do know what would happen, right?

Yes, Joe, the ARPANET fable does lives on.

Bruce Williams

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Generally speaking, it will be treated as damage and routed around.

That fable only really stands a chance when the damage is accidental; in
the case where such "damage" is being deliberately inflicted, particularly
by government, it gets more complicated. A lot of the 'net is a little
more centralized than it ought to be in order to allow the "routed around"
concept to work successfully.

... JG

BTW, I forget, when was the original ARPANET spec of surviving a
nuclear war tested? I mean, we do know what would happen, right?

Paul baran's rand paper was on survivable networks. The arpanet was not
that network.

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I worry now if it will survive the people that operate it.