Re: Outage queries and notices (was Re: GBLX congestion in Dallas area)

[Jerry Pasker]

It seems like it's taking more time to discuss it than it actually 
would take to create a nanog-outage list.

Maybe it's not being done because doing so would be threatening to a 
lot of people.

Having a large sounding board for outages will make it very difficult 
for larger providers to cover up outages.   Having a web archive of 
postings during the outages will make it harder for people to forget 
those outages after they're corrected.  Seeing lots of 
[reported/speculated] outages on a web archive from a larger NSP/ISP 
might make that network look bad, even though a large network might 
have a small percentage of outages when measured against the number 
of customers it serves.   Furthermore,  when someone does something 
stupid, it will be harder too forget/ignore the lessons learned.  I'm 
sure that's bound to make someone feel threatened.  ;-)

And last but not least: nanog-outage may become more operationally 
relevant than this list. :-)

-Jerry