[Outages-discussion] Unsignificant outages (was:NYC - PINCH)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Popovitch" <jimpop at gmail.com>

> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Joseph Jackson
> <jjackson at aninetworks.net> wrote:
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Outages-discussion [mailto:outages-discussion-bounces at outages.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Jim Popovitch
>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2016 2:31 PM
>>> To: outages-discussion at outages.org
>>> Subject: [Outages-discussion] Unsignificant outages (was:NYC - PINCH)
>>
>>> In the same spirit, can some more guidance be issued to reduce the
>>> noise of non-significant outages.   Is a single fiber cut really that
>>> much of an impact in 2016, or is it really just a normal and expected event that
>>> routing was designed to deal with?
>>
>> The routing protocols might be able to deal with a single fiber cut by design
>> but I've noticed that networks are rarely designed topology and capacity wise
>> for a failure of that sort.
> 
> I understand that, but those that do plan/provide/purchase
> connectivity/services from responsible providers, should their inboxes
> be full of people complaining over trivial matters of ignored
> experience and best practices?

Their own stupidity? No.

I have a bit softer heart for uplevel stupidity, though, as it's difficult
to see as a potential customer.

I'll dredge out the recommendations for posters I'd written up a couple 
years ago, and run em up the flagpole again.

Cheers,
-- jra
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