I've found some of the coverage wonderfully amusing - like the muppet quoted on El Reg :
Bearer asks a critical question: "Why wasn't this in the press, like Y2K or IPv4?"
Ermmm it was. Repeatedly. People have been banging on about it for sodding YEARS & there's been dozens of warnings this year alone.
(If he means the mainstream media then he needs to get a clue very rapidly or get out of the tech business for good)
Some of you know I play Eve Online - they load balance between upstream suppliers (with some dreadful s/w but lets not go there) & yesterday about 30 seconds after the BGP FIB update 40% of their bandwidth decided to start flapping. After an hour of assuming someone there had a clue (dangerous I know) I decided to contact them* so they knew why this was happening. Four hours later they manage to get temporary routing & b/w in place - today they're changing h/w
If I hadn't been playing I probably wouldn't have noticed. I don't have access to an AS anymore but I could see routes flapping easy enough.
One of the other guys in my Eve corp lives in NZ & designs/builds VoIP systems, another is a chief network engineer with Telstra so we had a chat on TS instead of killing imaginary Icelandic spaceships
One could connect, the other couldn't & after a brief derailment when someone said a router was dead at Telecity Meridian I twigged it after maybe 20 minutes. Still nothing on nanog or other regional mailing lists at this point.
Was very funny watching the carrier companies who employ monkeys falling over in a heap with routers flapping/crashing/dumping the entire routing table
*not customer service, one of the guys who deals with Tranquility (
http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/06/15/eve-online/ or much older
https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Tranquility) in London.