Thank you for the summary.
And, a sincere thank you for not mincing words when it comes to something as important as this.
>However, against numerous best practices outlined below, Verizon’s lack of filtering turned this into a major incident that affected many Internet services such as Amazon, Fastly, Linode and Cloudflare.
>IRR filtering would not have increased Verizon's costs or limited their service in any way. Again, the only explanation we can conceive of why it wasn't in place is sloppiness or laziness.
In an attempt to find any statement given by Verizon, I found that The Register was able to get this amazing statement:
"Verizon sent us the following baffling response to today's BGP cockup: "There was an intermittent disruption in internet service for some [Verizon] FiOS customers earlier this morning. Our engineers resolved the issue around 9am ET."" [1]
[1]https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/24/verizon_bgp_misconf...
And, a sincere thank you for not mincing words when it comes to something as important as this.
>However, against numerous best practices outlined below, Verizon’s lack of filtering turned this into a major incident that affected many Internet services such as Amazon, Fastly, Linode and Cloudflare.
>IRR filtering would not have increased Verizon's costs or limited their service in any way. Again, the only explanation we can conceive of why it wasn't in place is sloppiness or laziness.
In an attempt to find any statement given by Verizon, I found that The Register was able to get this amazing statement:
"Verizon sent us the following baffling response to today's BGP cockup: "There was an intermittent disruption in internet service for some [Verizon] FiOS customers earlier this morning. Our engineers resolved the issue around 9am ET."" [1]
[1]https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/24/verizon_bgp_misconf...