Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks

[Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu () gmail com>]

Le 14/03/2020 à 19:49, Rich Kulawiec a écrit :
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 11:01:48AM -0700, Mike Bolitho wrote:
> > Third, the trouble we had was a third party service having congestion
> > issues.
>
> This is a tiny sample of what's coming.

YES and it's in waves.  It's emergency, but not like in war with 
shelter, bombs, etc.  It's incoming and outgoing waves.  They are 
calculable.  Basically what China does now Italy will do soon, and so.
USA close borders to incomers now, but will see its outgoers banned soon 
by others.  The number of days between events is known in sources, just 
compute.

It's also about North and South hemispheres probably.

  We're all about to be tested
> in a major way, and lots of latent problems are about to become real,
> pressing problems.  So:
>
> 1. Get some rest.

YEs, plan the effort, dont give everything right away, like we are used 
with imediateness, with clicking buttons on screens and obtain service - 
a click of a button away.

Get rest, plan the rest.

  Stock up (judiciously, don't hoard) on supplies
> including medications, fluids, food, etc.

Hmmm, no.
They have time to care that for you.

> 2. Find all the phone chargers, laptop chargers, USB sticks, cables,
> everything.  If you're not already obsessive about keeping things
> charged, get that way.

yes.

> 3. Make sure your role addresses are up-to-date and working:
>
>         postmaster@
>         webmaster@
>         security@
>         abuse@
>         noc@

yes.

> and whatever else is appropriate.  Make sure that eyeballs are watching
> everything that comes in there and anticipate that some people -- under
> stress and anxious -- will send things to the wrong place.
>
> Same for your phone contacts.  And make sure frontline support personnel
> have the ability and judgment to rapidly escalate, do not allow urgent
> needs to get lost in some ticketing system.
>
> 4. Make sure your WHOIS contacts on networks and domains are up-to-date
> and working.  Same for your phone contacts.

yes

> 5. Identify any spare resources that you can lend out.  Identify any
> resources that you can guess will be needed.
>
> 6. Everyone who can telecommute should be telecommuting right now.

yes

> If you need hands on-site, and of course lots of people will, keep
> those people separated from others.  Make sure hands-on people know
> how to sanitize equipment, tools, etc.
>
> 7. Find time in the midst of this for self-care.

yes.

  You can't help
> anybody if you're exhausted.  Take a shower, watch dog videos, do
> whatever you need to in order to stay functional.
>
>
> Here's a resource page that I threw together with a little help
> from some epidemiologists.  It's short, plain HTML so it should
> load very fast, and of course because it's short it's probably missing
> things.  Send suggestions to me off-list.
>
>         http://www.firemountain.net/covid19.html

find the public data that tells about the ongoing trials of protocols.

Alex

> ---rsk