[ih] a single organization "managing the network"

vinton cerf vgcerf at gmail.com
Tue Jul 20 18:52:05 PDT 2021


we're talking petaflops - not inconsequential even for Google.
v


On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 7:57 PM Jack Haverty via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> With all of the corporations now doing "cloud computing", wouldn't such
> a replication be a small blip in their operation that wouldn't even be
> noticed by a Netflix or Youtube or AWS or the like.   A corporate
> donation of storage space to preserve the history of the net might even
> provide a message for Marketing to use.    Perhaps a logo proudly
> displaying membership in the Museum of the Internet? After 30 years, my
> Oracle contacts have long gone on to other things but some one or more
> of the Big Tech crowd might be worth asking. Or maybe they've been asked
> and said no.   If so, shame on them.
>
> /Jack
>
> On 7/20/21 3:41 PM, Dave Crocker via Internet-history wrote:
> > On 7/20/2021 3:32 PM, John Gilmore via Internet-history wrote:
> >> Just a realization that the corpus is becoming too valuable to leave
> >> inside a single point of failure.
> >
> > People keep using the future tense (or tone) for something that is
> > already well and truly true.
> >
> > Loss of that archive would already be spectacularly damaging.
> >
> > d/
> >
>
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