On 14 Jun 2021, at 7:48 PM, heasley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ARIN announced an upcoming 'surprise' maintenance in July 2021. Full >> details have not yet been disclosed - to make it a real surprise! :-) >> I think this RPKI experiment is useful, as it can help ARIN better >> understand its role and responsibilities in the ecosystem, which will >> help making more informed decisions. > > I do not like surprises and want to complain about this planned surprise. > > I do not want to be woken for something for which I could have planned > (ASes across the globe utilize this), nor have emergencies be fabricated > for me. Besides just being rude, it would be far more useful to observe > the behavior from start to finish, than to react to a failure. > > I also do not consider it ARIN's prerogative to test how clients react > to failure of their pub point. Every member has the ability to do this > themselves, how and where they desire (such as a lab rather than prod.), > and on their schedule. Some likely experience publicaiton points being > inaccessible daily. ARIN's goal should be the near uninterrupted > operation of their public facing services.
ARIN will publish additional information closer to the scheduled maintenance. > If ARIN requires a maintenance period, publish that period and adhere to > it. As our customers expect from us, I expect from ARIN. See above. > This is no longer a toy. That is quite correct - and all the more reason to confirm that your systems are configured so that lack of availability results in graceful fallback per best practices. Thanks! /John John Curran President and CEO American Registry for Internet Numbers _______________________________________________ arin-tech-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-tech-discuss
