Cloudflare wants internet route leaks to be a thing of the past

Internet outages happen all the time. If it’s not someone cutting through a cable in the street, it’s a massive denial-of-service attack pummeling a pillar of the internet with junk data.
There is another, more common cause: routing issues.
Internet routing isn’t sexy. But it’s a fundamental part of how the internet works. Routing relies on the border gateway protocol (BGP), which manages how internet traffic is routed the internet. BGP relies on trust between network ope