If This Had Been An Actual Emergency

saridder writes "In an increasing attempt to regulate the Internet like the current PSTN, the US Government has asked the IETF to come up with a system to prioritize government and emergency worker traffic in the event of another disaster, much like the GETS system already in place for the PSTN. It's interesting to follow, because it's only an RFC, so you don't have to follow it. I probably won't be prioritizing government traffic on any of my routers." The story has a link to the ieprep working group if you want to get involved or comment. Perhaps this is a better way than GOVNET.

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Freenet

[jdavidb]

Why don't they put out their data on freenet and then if people want to see it it will be replicated on nodes close to the people who want it?

Not true

[.sig]

The government did know something was going on, and it looks like they had a pretty good idea of what (the capitol building was evacuated before the first plane hit.) They didn't tell us, of course, since we're not as important as the government leaches, but they did know.