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NANOG Meeting Presentation Abstract

Peering BOF IV
Meeting: NANOG23
Date / Time: 2001-10-22 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Room: Jewett Ballroom A-D
Presenters: Moderators:
Bill Norton, Equinix.
Abstract: Now more than ever, Internet Service Providers are focusing on ways to increase the resiliency of their networks and, if at all possible, reduce their operating costs at the same time. Past research (Peering Decision Tree, presented at NANOG 19, and A Business Case for Peering) demonstrates the economic tradeoffs of peering and highlight the simple but challenging first step: How to know who to talk with at an ISP to get peering set up?



This Peering BOF focuses on this first step using \"Peering Personals.\" We solicit Peering Coordinators (before the meeting), asking them to characterize their networks and peering policies in general ways (\"content heavy\" or \"access (eyeball) -heavy,\" \"Multiple Points Required\" or \"Will Peer anywhere,\" \"Peering with Content OK,\" etc.). From the answers we will select a set of ISP Peering Coordinators to present a 2-3 minute description their network, what they look for in a peer, etc., allowing the audience to put a face with the name of the ISP. At the end of the Peering BOF, Peering Coordinators will have time to speak with Peering Coordinators of ISPs they seek to interconnect with. The expectation is that these interactions will lead to the Peering Negotiations stage, the first step towards a more fully meshed and therefore resilient Internet.



At the first NANOG Peering BOF I volunteered to maintain a Peering Contact Database (as an Excel Spreadsheet) that I e-mail out about every six weeks to participating Peering Coordinators. If you are a Peering Coordinator and would like to be listed in the PCD and get a copy of the PCD, send a note to [email protected] with Subject: PCD. I maintain this as a community service and is completely separate from my role at Equinix.



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NOTES:



Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 10:03:33 -0800

From: William B. Norton

Subject: Peering BOF IV Meeting Notes



Hi all -



Here are my notes from the Peering BOF IV - NANOG 23.



We started at 7:30 PM Monday evening with the intention of pulling the

peering community together through introductions. We had about 20 Peering

Coordinators step up to the mike, introduce themselves, say a word or two

about their network, peering policy and what they are looking for in a peer

network. This allowed the audience to put a face to a name for

conversations afterwards. Another 10 that didn\'t pre-register for this

stepped up and chimed in as well. From about 8:30 til almost 10PM the

community stuck around to talk and I\'m told that *dozens* of peering

sessions (Yahoo!, Akamai, Carrier1, SBC, etc.) will be set up as a result.

Highly successful NANOG for this segment of the population.



Several folks asked for a list of those who stood up to talk about their

peering policy, and here is what I have:



BBC Internet

Simon Lockhart

[email protected]



Digital Island

Mitchell Rose

[email protected]



DoubleClick

Alex Ng

[email protected]



TELUS

Clinton Work

[email protected]



France Telecom/Open Transit

Vincent Gillet

[email protected]



Globix

Steven J. Schecter

[email protected]



WINFirst

Hansel Lee

[email protected]



4CNet

Brian Court

[email protected]



Akamai

Rachel Warren

[email protected]



Patrick Gilmore

[email protected]



Hostcentric

Charlene Wang

[email protected]



Japan Telecom

Seiji Kuroda

[email protected]



Adelphia

Joe Klein

[email protected]



Earthlink

Jeb Linton/Josh Fleishman



Yahoo!

Jeffrey Papen

[email protected]



SBC

Ren Nowlin

[email protected]



Carrier1

Eric Troyer

[email protected]



ESNet

Joe Metzger

[email protected]



Velocita

Brian Dickson

[email protected]



I want to thank these folks for volunteering to share their info and hopefully this led to some sessions coming up.



Speaking of which, if Peering Coordinators would like to participate in the Peering Contact Database and receive a copy once a month or so of the Peering Contact Database, send e-mail to [email protected] and I\'ll return the template to fill out. So far we have about 150 Peering Coordinators listed.



Several suggestions were made for the next time:



- Include a \"Peering Contracts Required\" icon and



- \"Make it easy for folks to step up later along with Icons\" and



- \"Include e-mail addresses\"



We\'re going to try and factor in these suggestions for the Peering Personals at the next Gigabit Peering Forum which is held Dec 3rd in San Jose. If you are a Peering Coordinator and would like an invite to this let

me know.



For those who could not attend due to travel restrictions or whatever I\'d be happy to e-mail the slides with the peering icons and ISP names etc.



Hope this helped -



Bill
Files: None.
Sponsors: None.

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