Note, trustworthyness jumps off of being a technical problem, and becoming a human/people problem. Level 8 as someone mentioned, or GIGO (Garbage-In-Garbage-Out) as others may know it.

To safely use a system, your operator needs to be 10% smarter than the system being operated. It is clear that we have problems in that department with certain AS's. This is about, what the third major outage attributed to CenturyLink in the last handful of years? I have no idea what exactly their process must look like, but good heavens, a better look need be taken, as this is becoming a bit regular for my tastes.