<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style><![endif]--><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Tahoma;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-reply;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D;}
MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}
@page WordSection1
{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;
margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Here’s hoping tomorrow news isn’t too bad…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Surely there must be more we can do in this day and age? What would it take for independent carriers to provide a little ‘emergency’ bandwidth in such a situation even if it’s GPRS it’d make all the difference.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Narelle<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 30 November 2012 16:12<br><b>To:</b> Noel Butler<br><b>Cc:</b> ausnog@ausnog.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Syria cut's itself off!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>I have it on good authority that there are three undersea cables heading into Syria and one that comes overland from Turkey.<br><br>For all of these to be cut simultaneously they would need to be coming through an unlikely common path, to let me think, the one exchange, to the one set of routers all controlled by the one company... say Syrian Telecommunications...<br><br>I understand the routes were all withdrawn systematically, so this doesn't suggest fibre cuts, but deliberate reconfiguration of routers.<br><br>See:<br><a href="http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/">http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/</a> <br><br>Reminds me of Libya. That's what happened then.<br><br><br>-- <br><br><br>Narelle Clark<br>President<br>Internet Society of Australia<br>ph: 0412 297 043<br>int ph: +61 412 297 043<br><a href="mailto:president@isoc-au.org.au">president@isoc-au.org.au</a><br><a href="http://www.isoc-au.org.au">www.isoc-au.org.au</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Noel Butler <<a href="mailto:noel.butler@ausics.net" target="_blank">noel.butler@ausics.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 00:24 +0000, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hmmm<br><br> <br><br>Wondering if BBS will re appear (with up dialup ) again <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>I'm sure they do exist already <img border=0 width=16 height=16 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.png@01CDCF1D.A77ADA60" alt=":)"> <br><br>However, if reports are true, they have taken out total communications in some areas, so not much good.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>