[CPWG] ICANN position on the Facebook outage

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I agree with Olivier's suggestion.

CW

> On 6 Oct 2021, at 18:15, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond via CPWG <cpwg at icann.org> wrote:
> 
> 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/ <https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/> 
>> 
>> Regards...jmcc 
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