Figure 1 demonstrates that large-scale Internet service failures occur with regularity — at least and usually more than once a year – even when the plethora of usually unnoticeable smaller incidents and those events related to national security are not considered. It also becomes evident that the vast majority of events visible to the end user revolve mostly around the failure of the infrastructure and enabling services. This is noteworthy as problems around the notoriously vulnerable BGP (for an excellent survey, see [2]) capture much attention, as it is theoretically possible to generate a large impact on the global interconnection system with comparatively little complexity. While those incidents in practice do occur, their frequency and impact is, however, usually bounded, thanks to the established monitoring infrastructures such as BGPmon.