<div dir="ltr">Interesting thought, Matt.<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><div><br></div><div>It may be a shot in the dark, but it's a start I guess...</div><div><br></div><div>-Matt</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 4:15 PM Matthew Petach <<a href="mailto:mpetach@netflight.com">mpetach@netflight.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 10:27 AM Mike Bolitho <<a href="mailto:mikebolitho@gmail.com" target="_blank">mikebolitho@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Restoration:</b></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><br></b></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>The repair or returning to service of one or more telecommunications services that have
experienced a service outage or <i>are unusable for <u>any reason</u></i>, 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.</b><br clear="all"></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i><br></i></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/OEC%20TSP%20Operations%20Guide%20Final%2012062016_FINAL%20508C.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/OEC%20TSP%20Operations%20Guide%20Final%2012062016_FINAL%20508C.pdf</a> </div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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. <i><br></i></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>- Mike Bolitho</font></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>It appears that baking cakes was not sufficient to get recalcitrant players to work together.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mpetach/4031195041" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/mpetach/4031195041</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>If you're worried about congestion and performance, that would be the place to start pushing.</div><div><br></div><div>Matt</div><div>staying safely at home away from the flame-fest that may ensue from this. ^_^;</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Matt Erculiani<div>ERCUL-ARIN</div></div></div>