His anecdote about Google/Amazon using leap smears to solve the problem is telling. I suspect that they were unable to see outside their own bubble to think about how others may be impacted.
> We did what we always do when there's a problem without a clear solution: we waited
The original problem described the issue and the potential consequences very well and the problem didn't change between the initial report and when cloudflare hit it. It was only until a Serious Industrial User (to borrow a term from Xavier @ OCaml) got bit in a very public way that they actually began thinking about what a clear solution would look like.
His anecdote about Google/Amazon using leap smears to solve the problem is telling. I suspect that they were unable to see outside their own bubble to think about how others may be impacted.
> We did what we always do when there's a problem without a clear solution: we waited
The original problem described the issue and the potential consequences very well and the problem didn't change between the initial report and when cloudflare hit it. It was only until a Serious Industrial User (to borrow a term from Xavier @ OCaml) got bit in a very public way that they actually began thinking about what a clear solution would look like.