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Based on the number of times I've seen these posted about they seem quite frequent[0]. If I'm being honest, the entire BGP system seems to be very fragile with a massive blast radius. I get that it's super 'core' so it's hard to fix, and that it comes from a time when the Internet was more 'cooperative' (in the protocol sense of the word) but are there any attempts at a successor or is it impossible to do so fundamen…
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If a bunch of big tech companies started collaborating/colluding to implement this, we'd just have a bunch of people on HN decrying the "centralization" of the internet concentrated in the hands of a few. This is decentralization in action. You have to take the good with the bad.
there are definitely ways to make the bad much less bad
In large complex systems, perfection isn't really possible.
That's like what, one major incident per month now, Nov 18, Dec 5, and now this one? I'll bet JGC can write his own ticket by now, but unretiring would be really bad optics. He's on the board though and still keeping a watchful eye. But a couple more of these and CFs reputation will be in the gutter.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/fail-small-resilience-plan/
Your legacy is one of showing how to apply good engineering principles to complex problems at scale and I think CF is risking that reputation right now.