<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">(resent - to list this time)</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On 16 Feb 2021, at 2:37 PM, John Kristoff <<a href="mailto:jtk@dataplane.org" class="">jtk@dataplane.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Friends,<br class=""><br class="">I'd like to start a thread about the most famous and widespread Internet<br class="">operational issues, outages or implementation incompatibilities you<br class="">have seen.<br class=""><br class="">Which examples would make up your top three?</div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div class="">John - </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have no idea what outages were most memorable for others, but the Stanford transfer switch explosion in October 1996 resulted in a much of the Internet in the Bay Area simply not being reachable for several days. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">At the time there were three main power grids feeding Stanford – two from PG&E and one from Stanford’s own CoGen plant – and somehow a rat crawling into one of the two 12KVA transfer switches resulted in an the switch disppearing in an epic explosion that even took out a portion of the exterior wall of the building. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The ensuing restoration involved lots of industry folks, GE power-on-wheel generating stations, anaconda-sized power cables, and all in all was quite the adventure. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">FYI,</div><div class=""> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px;" class="">/John</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></div></body></html>