ISRG

Issuance kept working through the incident; upstream networking caused a higher error rate for ~90 minutes, and most requests still succeeded even then. The original HN title implied a day-long outage.

What the thread actually surfaced is the real anxiety underneath: one nonprofit quietly issues TLS certificates for a huge slice of the web, and it's pushing ever-shorter expiry windows that leave less slack when it stumbles.

The headline said many Let's Encrypt renewals had errors. The status page said 'Degraded Performance' — which, one reader stressed, means exactly that, not 'down.' Issuance was mostly working.

Then Josh Aas, Executive Director of ISRG, posted: a ~90-minute window of higher error rates from upstream networking issues, with the majority of requests succeeding even then. His read on the panic: the status.io notes were 'being misinterpreted as much more severe than they were intended to reflect.'