<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Florence and Connect group,<br class=""><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 26 Mar 2020, at 23:22, Florence Lavroff via connect-wg <<a href="mailto:connect-wg@ripe.net" class="">connect-wg@ripe.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Dear friends of the Connect-WG,<br class=""><br class=""><div class="">As you may all know by now, RIPE 80 will be a virtual meeting.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>While we are still working out the logistics of it with our fellow RIPE chairs,<br class="">we'd like to get your feedback on what topics you'd like to discuss under what format and how long this virtual session should ideally take.<br class=""><br class="">We consider maintaining our 1.5 hour slot for the moment, unless you propose otherwise. We'd also like to suggest as a main
topic for the working group a discussion session around the impact of
covid-19 on traffic, including but not restricted to the role of IXPs
during the crisis.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Nice idea and indeed a hot topic of our times. I believe many of us not only experienced new traffic peaks (that give nice topics for the marketing people to publish) but also had to face difficult challenges like:</div><div> - emergency upgrades on the internal network </div><div> - emergency customer upgrades (like up and running in 2-3 hours)</div><div> - equipment under stress/overload</div><div> - restricted access to datacenter</div><div><br class=""></div><div>And I’m sure I forget some more, but I would be glad to hear more stories from the fellow IXP colleagues. </div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Feel free to let us know your thoughts,<br class=""><br class="">Stay safe, healthy and wash your hands,<br class=""><br class="">Best regards,<br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Florence, Remco and Will<br class="">Connect-WG co-chairs<br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Florence Lavroff / <a href="mailto:lavroff@google.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank" class="">lavroff@google.com</a> <a value="+31651485236" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" class=""> / +31 6 11 01 55 80</a></div><div class="">Infrastructure Acquisition and Interconnect / Google EMEA</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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