Yes I did. It's the part where I clearly state it's possible that a router that offline or rebooted came up with a stale or incorrect config. This actually happ

Yes I did. It's the part where I clearly state it's possible that a router that offline or rebooted came up with a stale or incorrect config. This actually happens occasionally. I've been on both ends of it. Clearly Verizon has inbound prefix filtering in place as this is not some common occurrence for AS 701. Verizon was in contact with people yesterday. I have spoken to two people from two other carriers who were in touch with them. And you are just parroting the idea that because Cloudflare didn't get a response that Verizon wasn't responding to anyone period. And that's just not true. The fact that you think there's some red phone that just anyone can call the NOC and magically speak to someone during a major outage shows you have no practical experience with thes things you are commenting on and criticizing.