[Outages] outages wiki? feedback please

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Thu Jun 12 19:01:44 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:53:54AM -0700, Jeff Shultz wrote:
> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> >On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:50:24PM -0700, virendra rode // wrote:
> >>Wiki would serve well for documentation purposes such as operational,
> >>ISP related such as peer relationships, isp contacts, tools, etc., but
> >>nothing comes close to real-time outages (user feedback) via e-mail.
> >
> >Or, perhaps, an RSS feed from a user-maintained ticketing system.
> >
> >I've always wanted to build a public ticketing system, where you could,
> >for example, hang a ticket on a traffic signal that was out...
> 
> I can think of a few people I know that would report every single 
> traffic signal (and maybe a few stop signs) as out within 3 days.
> 
> I'm sure they'd be imaginative in their use of names too.

Yeah, this world would be so nice, if it weren't for all the *people*
in it.

We may have a loop: I didn't post that to NANOG, so far as I know; I
sent it to outages at isotf, and my copy back from taht list didn't
mention NANOG...

Cheers,
-- jra
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