Always a good time for network operators to consider the risks of having any one person as a single point of failure for something kind of important:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
Disaster recovery and continuity of business plans should always include the concept of what if some percentage of the key team members were to be suddenly unavailable permanently (the Malaysian airline incident, for example).
On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 8:08 PM Kate Gerry <kgerry@outlook.com <mailto:kgerry@outlook.com>> wrote:
Is there anybody else even there? I thought that it was all Paul's show!
If I was able to (as in, had access to), I would offer to help/run
with the IX. I may live in California, but it's a realistic car trip
back and forth to Phoenix.
--
Kate
On Nov 9, 2020, at 17:58, Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net
<mailto:nanog@ics-il.net>> wrote:
Paul's LinkedIn seems to show that he checked out in April. Let me
know if you have any success reaching anyone there.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/>
<https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL><https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb><https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions><https://twitter.com/ICSIL>
Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/>
<https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix><https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange><https://twitter.com/mdwestix>
The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/>
<https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp><https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg>
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*From:*"Kate Gerry" <kgerry@outlook.com <mailto:kgerry@outlook.com>>
*To:*"Bill Woodcock" <woody@pch.net <mailto:woody@pch.net>>
*Cc:*nanog@nanog.org <mailto:nanog@nanog.org>
*Sent:*Monday, November 9, 2020 5:44:42 PM
*Subject:*Re: Phoenix-IX Contact
Just a heads-up, I never heard a word from anybody at Phoenix-IX.
Is there anybody still running the IX? Or is it just on autopilot?
It'd be nice if anybody had some information on whatever happened
to Paul. Hopefully he is okay!
--
Kate
On Sep 14, 2020, at 13:33, Kate Gerry <kgerry@outlook.com
<mailto:kgerry@outlook.com>> wrote:
Thank Bill! I've been trying to reach Paul for ages now,
hopefully he pops back up again. We want to upgrade.
On an unrelated note, it looks like somebody has their ticket
system subscribed to the list... Awesome.
*From: *Dating Support <dating.support@csvwebsupport.com
<mailto:dating.support@csvwebsupport.com>>
*Subject: **[#WQV-291-95071]: Phoenix-IX Contact*
*Date: *September 14, 2020 at 12:43:20 PDT
*To: *kgerry@outlook.com <mailto:kgerry@outlook.com>
*Reply-To: *dating.support@csvwebsupport.com
<mailto:dating.support@csvwebsupport.com>
Kate Gerry,
Thank you for contacting us. This is an automated response
confirming the receipt of your ticket. Our team will get
back to you within 24 hours.
--
Kate
On Sep 14, 2020, at 12:48, Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net
<mailto:woody@pch.net>> wrote:
On Sep 14, 2020, at 9:31 PM, Kate Gerry
<kgerry@outlook.com <mailto:kgerry@outlook.com>> wrote:
Does anybody have a contact who works at Phoenix-IX? I
have been attempting to reach somebody there for a
while now without any luck.
Attempts to each out topeering@phoenix-ix.net
<mailto:peering@phoenix-ix.net>as well as Ninja-IX
have been without any luck. We also tried reaching out
to Paul Emmons via LinkedIn mail and never received a
response.
Paul is the correct person.
-Bill