[rrg] [lisp] Please respond: Questions from the IESG as to whether a WG forming BOF is necessary for LISP

[Scott Brim]

Excerpts from Jon Crowcroft on Sun, Feb 01, 2009 09:30:55AM +0000:
> you can push info multiply redundently
> (or cross-post:)
> and you get reliability with a silly overhead
> 
> or you can push an update which is wrong and disconnect the entire
> world, e.g.
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.html
> 
> so aside from the basic academic type scaling, has anyone done
> this sort of disaster-prone analysis for LISP/ALT?

There is a concern about misconfiguration.  Certainly you want at
least doublechecking, and possibly signatures.