[dssa] Availability issue on last call

[Don Blumenthal <dblumenthal@xxxxxxx>]

I asked on the last call whether we should have two categories of 
"availability," generally system availability vs data availability. Olivier 
asked a question later that 
suggested there might be a disconnect in what I was trying to say and what came 
over the wires. 

I wasn't talking about information being available universally and reliably, 
although that is a legitimate issue. My point was that availability often is 
used in the context
of, for example, whois debates; privacy/proxy services and tiered access come 
to mind. 

Three questions:

Is the kind of availability that I was thinking about a security and stabiity 
issue at all?
Is Olivier's universal and reliable a subset of my topic or different entirely? 
Feel free to answer, Olivier. :)
If universal and reliable is different, to what extent is it a part of system 
availability?

Don

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Don M. Blumenthal
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