And now all telecom companies are required to interconnect, right? Or did that n...

betaby · 2024-04-25T20:37:59.000000Z

> And now all telecom companies are required to interconnect, right?

No. That's not the case at all.

> so that other providers can act as "backups", so "that never happens again."

Also, no.

Also what do you mean by interconnect? BGP IP peering is a thing for a while. Big folks peer with big folks.

loceng · 2024-04-25T22:52:03.000000Z

"Ottawa announces it will require telecoms to provide backup for each other during outages following Rogers system failure" - https://www.thestar.com/business/ottawa-announces-it-will-re...

Are you aware of this?

kazinator · 2024-04-25T23:00:42.000000Z

When there is only "telecom" and not "telecoms", Ottawa will have to rephrase that.

loceng · 2024-04-26T00:51:40.000000Z

Canada will be abbreviated to CCP at that point.

HeatrayEnjoyer · 2024-04-26T06:08:47.000000Z

Even mainland china's ISPs are not entirely monolithic.

loceng · 2024-04-27T17:05:39.000000Z

And so this has to be done on a technical level in Canada to have the same capacity as the social oversight of CCP personnel being firmly embedded in each ISP on mainland China, right?