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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: New Peering Point Mailing Lists
>In my experience every public peering point has a mailing list >associated with it. Indeed, but they tend to be related to operational issues (at least for the few I'm on). >I'm less familar with mailing lists for >XPs outside the US, but most also have a mailing list associated >with each exchange point. Certainly LINX and LoNAP in London do. Where I see benefit in having independant lists about NAPs (in general, I think it's a bit premature to have separate lists for each NAP) if for gaining preliminary information about the NAP, for those people considering joining. Whilst looking around for NAPs to join, the biggest problem I've found is gauging opinion of which are/aren't good NAPs, and also finding out any real information about the NAPs - including how to join them. The NAPs I've looked at so far have quite a range of information: - No information/very hard to find: e.g. SprintNAP (I've found the ones run by telcos to be the worst) - Some information, but sketchy and looks out of date, no contact information: e.g. MAE (although they seem to be updating it again now) - More information, but "email us if you want more details": e.g. LoNAP (www.lonap.net) - Fairly well documented: e.g. LINX (www.linx.net) - full information including joining criteria/costs, member list, architecture, etc. Perhaps there is some merit (and this is something I've discussed Jeffrey Meltzer already) is expanding on Bill Manning's efforts to collect together a list of all the NAPs, and include basic information on architecture, location, costs, general information, etc for each of the NAPs. Simon -- Simon Lockhart | Tel: +44 (0)1737 839676 Internet Engineering Manager | Fax: +44 (0)1737 839516 BBC Internet Services | Email: [email protected] Kingswood Warren,Tadworth,Surrey,UK | URL: http://support.bbc.co.uk/
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