[Outages-announce] Announcement: Critical Internet Infrastructure WG is now open to public participation

[Justin Shore]

Gadi Evron wrote:
> Perhaps outages@ has matured enough for some guidelines to be written?

That's certainly a possibility.  Perhaps there should be different 
outages lists for different types of outages.  That could be a good way 
to maintain the integrity of the original Outages list, keeping the 
fluff off that list but still make it available on other lists.

When I think of the Outages list I think of outages to major components 
of the Internet infrastructure such as IXPs, DNS root servers, major 
carrier failures, etc.  I would expand that to cover major data center, 
carrier hotel, wire center/CO hits too.  That's what I expect to see on 
the current Outages list.  I suppose there could be an outages list for 
other things though such as gaming servers/services (major ones like 
what the gaming companies themselves host such as WoW); major website 
outages such as Google, CNN or Facebook; application outages such as 
instant messaging, Vonage, Google Voice, etc.  Those would be good 
candidates for new outage lists.  Letting this kind of stuff on Outages 
would be like turning NANOG into a general tech support list; not a good 
thing.

It's a thought.
  Justin