Peering BOF IV Meeting Notes

["William B. Norton" <wbn () equinix com>]

Hi all -

Here are my notes from the Peering BOF IV - NANOG 23
( http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0110/norton.html )

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  simonl () rd bbc co uk
Digital Island          Mitchell Rose   mrose () digisle net
DoubleClick             Alex Ng         ngluck () bb directv com
TELUS           Clinton Work    Clinton.Work () telus com
France Telecom/Open Transit     Vincent Gillet  vgi () utopia opentransit net
Globix          Steven J. Schecter      sjs () globix net
WINFirst                Hansel Lee      Hansel.Lee () corp winfirst com
4CNet                   Brian Court     bac () csu net
Akamai          Rachel Warren rachel () plur net / Patrick Gilmore patrick () ianai net
Hostcentric             Charlene Wang   Charlene.Wang () hostcentric com
Japan Telecom   Seiji Kuroda    kuroda () gw odn ad jp
Adelphia                Joe Klein       jtk () adelphiacom net
Earthlink               Jeb Linton/Josh Fleishman
Yahoo!          Jeffrey Papen   jpapen () yahoo-inc com
SBC                     Ren Nowlin      ln1875 () sbc com
Carrier1                Eric Troyer     eric.troyer () carrier1 com
ESNet           Joe Metzger     metzger () es net
Velocita                Brian Dickson   brian.dickson () velocita com

I want to thank these folks for volunteering to share their info and 
hopefully this led to some sessions coming up.  <a bunch of folks came up 
to the mike but I don't remember the names except for Paul Vixie.  I 
remember there were people in this group that included e-bay, Microsoft, 
Comcast.>

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 wbn () wbnorton org 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


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William B. Norton       Co-Founder and Chief Technical Liaison          Equinix
wbn () equinix com                                                      650.315.8635