Here's a few things I think we need to learn from this.
> Lack of market concentration at end-user networks
After reading a lot on "resilience engineering" I wrote a chapter
"Technology is a diversity issue" in Digital Vegan. Ultimately the
BigTech situation in the US (and our dependency in Europe) is
antithetical to the original DARPA brief and overall national
security.
> significant amounts of users are Ukrainian companies
Local tech is local power and that's super important. Outsourcing
everything to potential future adversaries is a dumb move. People here
are already suggestion Microsoft weaponise Windows updates against
Russian society.
> Resiliency in IXPs
More interchange points means less choke points and single failure
modes. We are moving the wrong way in Europe and the US with greater
"AS Hegemony"
> Humans: determination of network operators in Ukraine to keep the
Internet running.
Deskilling is a problem in Europe and the US as we rely more and more
on "cloud" services. Having sysop skills distributed among the
population, and a culture in which sysadmins are well paid and
respected is a social technical resilience.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 16.0 ms ] thread> Lack of market concentration at end-user networks
After reading a lot on "resilience engineering" I wrote a chapter "Technology is a diversity issue" in Digital Vegan. Ultimately the BigTech situation in the US (and our dependency in Europe) is antithetical to the original DARPA brief and overall national security.
> significant amounts of users are Ukrainian companies
Local tech is local power and that's super important. Outsourcing everything to potential future adversaries is a dumb move. People here are already suggestion Microsoft weaponise Windows updates against Russian society.
> Resiliency in IXPs
More interchange points means less choke points and single failure modes. We are moving the wrong way in Europe and the US with greater "AS Hegemony"
> Humans: determination of network operators in Ukraine to keep the Internet running.
Deskilling is a problem in Europe and the US as we rely more and more on "cloud" services. Having sysop skills distributed among the population, and a culture in which sysadmins are well paid and respected is a social technical resilience.