COVID-19 vs. our Networks

Fri Mar 20 15:35:57 UTC 2020

On Friday, 20 March, 2020 07:52, Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net> wrote:

>Some of the pipes Netflix goes through is also used by other services
>that aren't as adaptable.

Can you explain why you think that is Netflix problem?  

I should think that it is a problem being experienced by persons who deliberately chose to accept the risk that Internet congestion may be a problem for the path upon which they have deliberately chosen to embark.  That Risk might now come to fruition and those persons should be activating their pre-planned mitigation.  If their pre-planned mitigation was "well, Netflix can shut down", then they had (hopefully) defective mitigation planning.  Perhaps in the future they will do a better job of assessing Risk and mitigating that Risk.

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