[150449] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Outages-discussion] Recent outage in Australia affecting Telstra
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Feb 24 10:47:55 2012
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:46:54 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120224130833.GA7024@greenie.muc.de>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gert Doering" <gert@greenie.muc.de>
> > One of Telstra's downstream customers, a smaller ISP called Dodo,
> > accidentally announced the global table to Telstra (or perhaps a very
> > large portion of it.) Enough of it to cause major disruption.
>
> This is good. There is a chance that Telstra will learn from it, and
> do proper customer-facing filters now.
>
> OTOH, there also is a chance that Telstra lawyers will just sue the
> customer, and not change anything...
Perhaps. I am not familiar with Australian jurisprudence, but the US there
is the doctrine of Last Clear Chance[1]... and the work necessary on Telstra's
part to avoid this problem is a) well known, b) arguably considered best
practice for a company in their field, and c) not disproportionately
onorous for them to have undertaken...
so even if they sue, it's not at all a clear cut case for them to "win".
Cheers,
-- jra
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_clear_chance
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