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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">On 19 Jan 2021 at 20:51, Amreesh Phokeer wrote:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Hello Paulos,</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> You can see some data collected and analysis done in these multiple places.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> As you can see, BGP prefixes were removed, most probably BGP sessions were shut down.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Thanks for the data, very interesting. It appears right that I called this measurement around a
"balck hole" which we can now see clearly.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Also interesting to note is that more than 90% of the </span></font>
<font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Uganda-IX</span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"> traffic is dependent on
international connectivity or was the local network around the IXP also shutdown?. I am
wondering also if that may also be based on CDNs and their related external management
and cache fill issues. </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Regards,</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Paulos</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Dr Paulos B Nyirenda</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">http://www.nic.mw</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">SDNP: http://www.sdnp.org.mw</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Tel: +265-(0)-882 089 166</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Cell: +265-(0)-888-824787</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> OONI Explorer:</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> https://explorer.ooni.org/country/UG#overview</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> ISOC Insights:</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> https://insights.internetsociety.org/shutdowns/4992</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> RIPE Labs:</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/our-first-glance-at-the-uganda-internet-shutdown</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> CAIDA IODA:</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> https://ioda.caida.org/ioda/dashboard#from=-1w&until=now&view=inspect&entity=country/UG&last</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> View=overview</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Oracle Intelligence:</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> https://map.internetintel.oracle.com/?root=national&country=UG</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> AFRINIC AIRRS:</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> https://airrs.afrinic.net/ug</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Uganda-IX traffic:</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> https://portal.uixp.co.ug/public-statistics/public</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Regards,</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Amreesh</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> On AIRRS, you could see the clear removal of prefixes:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> On 19 Jan 2021, at 13:14, Dr P Nyirenda <paulos@sdnp.org.mw> wrote:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> It appears that the recent Internet shutdown in Uganda may have provided a great </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> opportunity to measure Internet Resilience in Africa even if this would have been around a </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> "black hole".</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Did anyone attempt to make any such measurements ?</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> For example, how did the Uganda ccTLD .ug fare during the shutdowm?</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Did .ug go down during shutdown?</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> What did connectivity look like to those neighbouring Uganda network wise ?</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Would be great to hear some answers or experience in a technical manner, just curious.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Regards,</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Paulos</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Dr Paulos B Nyirenda</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> SDNP: http://www.sdnp.org.mw</span></font></div>
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