[CPWG] ICANN position on the Facebook outage

Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond ocl at gih.com
Wed Oct 6 16:15:15 UTC 2021


IMHO a blog post by OCTO would suffice. It could even point at the 
Cloudflare explanation.
Kindest regards,

Olivier

On 06/10/2021 17:43, John McCormac via CPWG wrote:
> The problem with Facebook was self inflicted. Perhaps the simplest 
> solution for ICANN would be a one page text with a graphic explaining 
> that Facebook (or other large company) is not the Internet.
>
> The discussion on today's call seemed like a kind of regulatory 
> overreach with a desire to have ICANN tell large companies how to 
> construct their own network architecture. This really is not an ICANN 
> issue.
>
> For those who haven't seen it yet, the CloudFlare blog post on what 
> happened with Facebook is worth reading:
>
> https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
>
> Regards...jmcc

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