On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Randy Bush wrote:
it might be interesting to know how you determined this and what are "major worldwide backbone issues" in the sense of how they are defined and measured. Maybe they told him. :)
damn. and i really meant my question. a lot of researchers are investing a lot of effort into recognizing and sizing major network problems from general/external evidence, e.g. route-views, traces, ippm measurements, ...
So, would RIPE's RIS project or some of the other route monitoring projects have noticed this as well? What is a 'major backbone outage' versus a peering link bounce from their perspective? Could they/should they monitor and report to some 'central' place when these larger events happen? What's the cutoff from 'minor' to 'major' event? -Chris