Re: [arch-d] possible new IAB programme on Internet resilience

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Jan 01, 2020 at 06:44:21PM +0000,
 Dan York <[e-mail]> wrote 
 a message of 480 lines which said:

> For example, at Amazon’s recent re:Invent conference they promoted a
> way to directly connect enterprise data centers to Amazon’s global
> AWS network (“Outposts”) and also a way to connect telco
> points-of-presence to Amazon’s network (“Wavelength”). My
> understanding is that Microsoft has similar functionality for Azure
> (“Stack”, I believe) and Google either has or is working on
> something similar for their Google Cloud Platform. Similarly, large
> entities such as Facebook and Netflix have built their own global,
> private networks that interconnect to local data centers (where
> those data centers are also connected to the public Internet).

Some people here are probably aware of it, but I think it is an
opportunity to mention Geoff Huston's articles about the "death of
transit" <http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2017-03/gilding.html>
<https://2017.apricot.net/program/schedule/#/day/9/apnic-panel---forces-shaping-the-network>. I
don't agree with him but these articles seem relevant for this
specific part of the discussion.