Regional Technical Contacts

[Dave Diller <>]

I’m sure there are several of us that would appreciate further technical 
details. Glad it got caught in the first few moves, but more details please. 
Next NTAC P&R call would seem an appropriate forum. 

-dd

> On Aug 23, 2021, at 21:22, Matt Valenzisi <> wrote:
> 
> Hello Linda:
> 
> Thanks for the info.
> 
> Any chance I could chat with someone to get the detail on the issue?
> We are actually looking at placing 8000s in our core this year and
> they would participate in our BGP. Also, I think it would provide us
> some comfort knowing what this issue was and how it was being
> mitigated just in general.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Matt
> 
>> On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 9:02 PM Linda Roos <> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> As promised last week, we are providing an update on the pause in BGP 
>> service migrations that we initiated last Tuesday. Our engineers have been 
>> working closely with Cisco’s senior platform engineers to better 
>> understand the observed route convergence issue and our options for 
>> mitigating. As of today, we have identified the trigger and have developed 
>> several strategies that will allow us to resume the migrations. We are 
>> tentatively planning to resume migration on Monday, August 30th. In the 
>> meantime we will perform final validation and testing of the mitigation 
>> approaches. The online schedule [1] for service migrations has been 
>> updated to provide everyone an advance view of our tentative new schedule. 
>> Unless we identify any significant changes in our understanding of the 
>> issue or our mitigation approach, we will begin notifying folks, with 
>> targeted migration notifications, of their migration dates within the next 
>> few days.
>> 
>> Thank you for your support and if you have questions, please send them to 
>> .
>> 
>> Linda
>> 
>> [1]https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Zqi-5_ZuzTFYdSkRlIbHCriHJMAIgyqg0YiFVL2F8xU/edit?usp=sharing
>> 
>> 
>> —
>> Linda Roos
>> Sr Director, State and Regional Networks
>> Internet2
>> 
>> 812-558-0615
>> 
>>