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From: craig@NNSC.NSF.NET (Craig Partridge)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Networks and Harm
Message-ID: <8812152304.AA09437@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 15 Dec 88 20:49:24 GMT
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Hi folks:

    Is anyone currently using computer networks in a situation in which
if they were denied access to the network, a human being would suffer
harm (e.g., suffer injury or even die)?

    I ask because I'm (finally) writing up a paper on fair allocation
of resources in computer networks and want to know if, in fact, denial
of service has consequences substantially more severe than simply forcing
an application to try again later.

Thanks,

Craig