Rugged, that's a good word. I've seen IRC set as default communication channel for incident management. No matter how much infrastructure is down, as long as yo

Rugged, that's a good word. I've seen IRC set as default communication channel for incident management. No matter how much infrastructure is down, as long as you have a few engineers, they can either reach or set up an ircd in no time and have proper, timestamped and logged communication.