ISO.org outage hits day 3: Still in the dark as the important matter of bunk bed standards enters discussion
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Problems first appeared as 26 January drew to a close and the organisation noted: "We are currently facing a technical outage impacting our application's availability and performance. This outage is under investigation."
The following day brought good news. At 0822 CET on 27 January the group announced it had identified the issue (something to do with IT infrastructure) and a couple of hours later reported that some applications were being brought back up.
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Alas, 24 hours on and much of the site still seems to be down. One Register reader remarked: "Now would not be a good time to look up the ISO 22300:2021 Security and Resilience Vocabulary."
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Well, you could try. And you'd probably find yourself staring at a page spattered with the word "Unavailable" and apologies from the organisation.
The Register contacted the ISO to find out what had befallen its infrastructure. After all, a lengthy outage is not the greatest of looks for an outfit normally associated with best practices whose standards tend to be wheeled out by auditors seeking to make a point.
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While there has been no response from the group (allowing for mutterings about something concerning DNS and malware), we can but hope that further updates will use approved ISO standard vocabulary. Assuming one can actually find the document concerned.
In the meantime, the standards work goes on.
Today's meeting is an [8]@isostandards TC136 WG4 meeting for beds - today we're focussing on a revision of ISO 9098 - the standard for [9]#bunkbeds — Phil Reynolds (@furnituretester) [10]January 27, 2022
Beds, eh? No surprise that ISO has opted for a lengthy lie-down. ®
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Maybe some ransomware operator has threatened to post the standards where they can be read for free, cutting off the ISO revenue stream. They'll be busy incrementing all the version numbers so as to invalidate the existing ones before restoring the site.
But the ransomware operator promised only to release encrypted standards when payed and suggested the ROT676 algorithm for added security. It was also suggested to upgrade to ROT17576 for a modest 10% additional fee.
Well said!
Have one - - - - >
Yeah, I'm all for having standards and having people adhere to them. It gets complicated when you cannot know about said standard because you have to pay an arm and a leg and half of you firstborn's soul to actually read the damned thing.
"Maybe some ransomware operator has threatened"
More likely they've just over-complicated their IT so it's got fragile. Not too long ago they changed the portal used by contributors to standards. Before the change it worked perfectly well. After the change it only worked on very recent browsers and required an 'app' download of many megabytes just to present a page where one could click on a link to download a (typically sub-megabyte) document.
Nothing to see here
They identified the problem two days ago, but the solution has to be ratified by the working group before being passed to the 26 national committees to make sure the punctuation is all correct. Once the spreadsheet summarising the feedback has been correlated and passed around for comment, then the final draft will be published and reviewed, and all going well the website should be back up by about March. March 2023.
Bunked off early for the weekend!
Bunked off early for the weekend!