There is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPMG#Controversies

and then there is this:

https://home.kpmg/content/dam/kpmg/us/pdf/2019/01/2018-trans...

At the end of the day, any grouping of individuals are a (partially biased) sample of the society in general. The role of media and education is fairly decisive in forming social norms. We may have one or two lost generations of engineers following orders, but as Joe said 'The future is unwritten".

This isn't true. If you're hosting it, you can control it and you can make sure that it's always operational. The last thing you want is a 100 phone call of "my internet isn't working" and then trying to explain it's not your fault, but rather it's "some other guy".

Or you can directly ask a domain's authoritative nameserver directly. Using an intermediate caching resolver isn't required. Recursively resolving the DNS query locally only requires asking a centralized nameserver for a domain's authoritative nameservers (the NS records) which can usually be cashed locally for a long time. Every other request is compartmentalized to different servers by domain delegation.

Or do both; configure your local resolver to try recursively resolving a request, and fall back to the ISP (other) cache if needed.

Regardless, impressive step to take.

“Seriously, April 1?

The only question that remained was when to launch the new service? This is the first consumer product Cloudflare has ever launched, so we wanted to reach a wider audience. At the same time, we're geeks at heart. 1.1.1.1 has 4 1s. So it seemed clear that 4/1 (April 1st) was the date we needed to launch it.”

Seems like they were pretty serious with it. :)

Same post mentions KPMG.