On 3/Aug/20 14:57, Tom Beecher wrote:
Agreed.
However, every time we go on this Righteous Indignation of Should Do crusade, it would serve us well to stop and remember that in every one of our jobs, at many points in our careers, we have been faced with a situation where something we SHOULD do ends up being deferred for something we MUST to do. It is a universal truth that there will never enough time and resources to complete both, especially not in our current business environment that the only thing that matters is the numbers for the next quarter. Sometimes as engineers we have to make choices, sometimes choices are imposed on us by pointy hairs.
Telia made a mistake. They owned it and will endeavor to do better. What more can be asked?
I think we've now gone past Telia's mistake and are considering what we can all do as BGP actors to prevent this particular issue from making a reprise. Agreed, we all have bits we need to prioritize our time on. But the BGP requires concerted effort of all actors on the Internet. How an operator in Omsk works with BGP has a potentially direct impact on another operator in Ketchikan. So whether I choose to spend more time on attending conferences vs. upgrading my core network, neither of those has an impact on the BGP. But if I'm going to not take BGP filtering as seriously as I should, the engineer, their employer and customer, sitting all the way in Yangon, could feel that. The devices we use, nowadays, are only as useful as their connectedness. No connectivity, and they're just bricks. Particularly in these Coronavirus times, the Internet is what is keeping economies alive, and folk employed. So rather than go back to the old days of, "We are busy, it is what it is", let's figure out how to make it better. We don't have to fix all of the Internet's governance issues this century - let's just start with making this "BGP optimizer danger" fix + "all operators should filter more deliberately" a reality. Mark.