Diego Doval discusses the latest Akamai outage (similar to this one) and all the teeth gnashing about how the 'Net is supposed to be immune to single points of failure:
"Let's concede the point that a systemic failure at the packet-switching level is of very low probability in today's Internet. What about the services?
"Because it is the services that create today's Internet. And many of the services that the Internet depends on are centralized. ..."
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