The details can be found here:
http://www.matrixnetsystems.com/ea/advisories/20021003_instant_alert.jsp
The details can be found here:
http://www.matrixnetsystems.com/ea/advisories/20021003_instant_alert.jsp
more measurement sans insight or analysis. sadly a popular sport, though
neither operations or research.
what *caused* the outage?
Outages like that are more likely to to be caused by a "who"
rather than a "what". 
-Jim P.
My understanding based on hallway conversations: router table overflow due
to a change in edge netmask policy. I'm sure the real details will
surface rsn.
-fred