[81404] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Outage queries and notices (was Re: GBLX congestion in Dallas
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Pasker)
Wed Jun 8 14:51:36 2005
In-Reply-To: <42A73AA7.60201@he.iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 13:50:22 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Jerry Pasker <info@n-connect.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
It seems like it's taking more time to discuss it than it actually
would take to create a nanog-outage list.
Maybe it's not being done because doing so would be threatening to a
lot of people.
Having a large sounding board for outages will make it very difficult
for larger providers to cover up outages. Having a web archive of
postings during the outages will make it harder for people to forget
those outages after they're corrected. Seeing lots of
[reported/speculated] outages on a web archive from a larger NSP/ISP
might make that network look bad, even though a large network might
have a small percentage of outages when measured against the number
of customers it serves. Furthermore, when someone does something
stupid, it will be harder too forget/ignore the lessons learned. I'm
sure that's bound to make someone feel threatened. ;-)
And last but not least: nanog-outage may become more operationally
relevant than this list. :-)
-Jerry
