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Racks, Sprawl and the Myth of Redundancy in Modern Networks

🔁 The article traces redundancy from tangible rack-level practices to fragile cloud and software-defined environments. It argues that physical diversity, disciplined configuration management and automation remain essential as networks span BGP, SD-WAN, edge devices and cloud control planes. Real resilience requires policy alignment, diverse DNS and routing protections and rehearsed pre-mortems so backups are usable when they matter most.

Cloudflare Launches Self-Serve BYOIP API with RPKI

🔐 Cloudflare unveiled a self‑serve BYOIP API enabling customers to onboard and manage their own IP prefixes via automated workflows. The new flow replaces manual LOA reviews with a two-step validation that uses RPKI ROAs plus either IRR route-object modification or a reverse DNS validation token. Cloudflare will auto-generate LOA-style documentation for operators that still require it and enforces a default service binding to prevent accidental prefix blackholing. The initial rollout supports prefixes originated from AS13335 and is designed to shorten deployment timelines while strengthening routing security.

A Framework for Measuring Internet Resilience Nationwide

🔍 This post introduces a reproducible, data-driven framework to quantify Internet resilience, motivated by the July 8, 2022 Rogers outage that affected millions. It defines resilience as the ability of a national or regional ecosystem to maintain diverse, secure routing and rapidly recover from failures. The framework combines public sources (RouteViews, RIPE RIS, traceroutes, IXPs, submarine cable maps) and focuses on measurable metrics such as RPKI, ROV, IXP distribution, submarine cable diversity, AS path diversity, and impact-weighted assessments.