Re: COVID-19 vs. peering wars

[Matt Erculiani <merculiani () gmail com>]

Interesting thought, Matt.

I've emailed both of my Senators to inform them of this issue and its
potential impact on the resiliency of the internet (the most infamous
culprit being an operator of root DNS servers, to name a specific example).
I would encourage every NANOG member who cares about this issue to do the
same.

It may be a shot in the dark, but it's a start I guess...

-Matt

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 4:15 PM Matthew Petach <mpetach () netflight com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 10:27 AM Mike Bolitho <mikebolitho () gmail com>
> wrote:
>
> > *Restoration:*
> >
> > *The repair or returning to service of one or more telecommunications
> > services that have experienced a service outage or are unusable for any
> > reason, including a damaged or impaired telecommunications facility. Such
> > repair or returning to service may be done by patching, rerouting,
> > substitution of component parts or pathways, and other means, as determined
> > necessary by a service vendor.*
> >
> >
> > https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/OEC%20TSP%20Operations%20Guide%20Final%2012062016_FINAL%20508C.pdf
> >
> >
> > My understanding, and what we did while I worked for a Tier I ISP, was
> > that even for degraded circuits we had to do everything in our power to
> > restore to full operations. If capacity is an issue and causes TSP coded
> > DIA circuits to be unusable then that falls under the "any reason" clause
> > of that line.
> >
> > - Mike Bolitho
>
> If you're going to bang that drum, the place you're going to get the most
> buck-for-your-bang is using it to force better cooperation between ISPs.
>
> It appears that baking cakes was not sufficient to get recalcitrant
> players to work together.
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/mpetach/4031195041
>
> Perhaps a global pandemic may be sufficient to have government begin to
> *compel* networks to interconnect at locations at which they share common
> peering infrastructure?
>
> If you're worried about congestion and performance, that would be the
> place to start pushing.
>
> Matt
> staying safely at home away from the flame-fest that may ensue from this.
>   ^_^;

-- 
Matt Erculiani
ERCUL-ARIN