n Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 6:15 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us> wrote:
On 12/16/2016 1:48 PM, Hugo Slabbert wrote:
This started as a technical appeal, but:
1. Discussion will focus on Internet operational and technical issues as described in the charter of NANOG.
Hard to see how the OP has anything to do with either of the above.
Actually, it's not that hard ... *if* we can control ourselves from making them partisan, and focus instead on the operational aspects. (Admittedly, that's pretty hard!) The OP's query was a logical combination of two concepts: - First, from the charter (emphasis mine): "NANOG provides a forum where people from the network research community, the network operator community and the network vendor community can come together *to identify and solve the problems that arise in operating and growing the Internet*." - Second, from John Gilmore: "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." The OP appears to be managing risk associated with a (perhaps low) chance of future censorship. Was the OP asking a straight question about BGP or SFPs or CDNs? Of course not. But should doctors only talk about surgical technique -- and not about, say, the need for a living will? Of course not. IMO, *operational, politics-free* discussion of items like these would also be on topic for NANOG: - Some *operational* workarounds for country-wide blocking of Facebook, Whatsapp, and Twitter [1], or Signal [2] - The *operational* challenges of replicating the Internet Archive to Canada [3] Each operator has to make such risk calculations for themselves. Some may see the "NA" in NANOG as insurance that such censorship could never happen here. Others -- especially those who came from other countries -- may feel differently. Put another way: Everyone has a line at which "I don't care what's in the pipes, I just work here" changes into something more actionable. Being *operationally* ready for that day seems like a good idea to me. Royce 1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/12/20/turkey-blocks-access-facebo... 2. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/12/20/world/middleeast/ap-ml-egypt-app-... 3. https://blog.archive.org/2016/11/29/help-us-keep-the-archive-free-accessible...