<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Feb 7, 2013, at 5:41 PM, Stephen Wilcox <<a href="mailto:steve.wilcox@ixreach.com">steve.wilcox@ixreach.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Is this a serious answer? Because something is important to you it should fall into the definition of "<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Times; font-size: medium; ">failures of major communications infrastructure components having significant traffic-carrying capacity" ?</span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, it qualifies given that almost every consumer (and a fair few business) facing service out there lets you use either Twitter or Facebook to authenticate; it's in the same bucket as 8.8.8.8 going down. Widespread service failures for end users result if it happens, and is the kind of thing that's useful to understand in the context of "why is the helpdesk phone exploding."</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">.. thats precisely the definition of something thats a localised issue and should not be shared outside that community. You need to subscribe to an OAuth mailing list.</div></blockquote></div><br><div>Localized only insofar as it's a layer 7 problem should it hit; past that, the effects are internet-wide.</div><div><br></div><div>-- Corey</div></body></html>