Worldcom fiber cut 3 strikes, your out

Fri Jul 18 16:25:32 UTC 1997

Worldcom has done it again, they just had a major fiber cut in IL

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On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Mark Kent wrote:

> Clearly the definition of tiers varies over time.  I think that the
> tools needed to "measure" the current tier-ness of providers are:
> 
> a) a full bgp table (not just a full route table... if net FOO appears
>    behind AS3561, AS1239 and AS1 then you want all three entries).
> b) a suitably large group of companies whose net access depends on how
>    you extract a route table from the full bgp table
> c) a stopwatch
> d) a phone
> 
> The procedure is basically to eliminate an AS from getting in the
> route table and timing how fast the phone rings.  Then you just need a
> scale, something like this
> 
> 0 - 2 minutes:  Tier 1
> 2 - 10 minutes: Tier 2
> etc.
> 
> In some cases you can replace the stopwatch with a calendar.
> 
> You can flesh out this methodology with extras like frequency of calls,
> duration of calls, language used in the calls, whether you are threatened
> or not, whether your family is threatened, etc.
> 
> This technique has been used by some service providers
> by way of their peering strategy.
> 
> -mark
> 