[Outages-announce] Outages and posting on different types of services

[Gadi Evron]

Justin Shore wrote:
> 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

Just changing the subject so folks can participate in this discussion.




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