<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Dear all,</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Yesterday a small 
company in Northern Pennsylvania became a preferred path of many 
Internet routes through Verizon (AS701), a major Internet transit 
provider.&nbsp;</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">The details of this &nbsp;of the outage can be read here.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><font color="#954f72" face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><a href="https://radar.qrator.net/blog/how-difficult-is-to-disrupt-a-service-nowadays" class="">https://radar.qrator.net/blog/how-difficult-is-to-disrupt-a-service-nowadays</a></span></font><div class=""><font color="#954f72" face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(149, 79, 114); font-size: 14px;" class="">Cloudflare, one of those effected, also published more on the issue and how it impacted their&nbsp;operations.</span><br class=""></font><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-verizon-and-a-bgp-optimizer-knocked-large-parts-of-the-internet-offline-today/?fbclid=IwAR11RUJU-jY-PbGMH1WjIdbR6WhqkSDcWlQR5pFU5sKsVJwPpUrTyfwJJIw" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-verizon-and-a-bgp-optimizer-knocked-large-parts-of-the-internet-offline-today/?fbclid=IwAR11RUJU-jY-PbGMH1WjIdbR6WhqkSDcWlQR5pFU5sKsVJwPpUrTyfwJJIw</a></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Solution: if you have not already considered RPKI then you probably should.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><a href="https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/resource-management/certification" class="">https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/resource-management/certification</a></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">If you are&nbsp;interested in understanding more about hot to deploy RPKI please let us know.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Regards</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Hisham</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></body></html>