Peering BOF V - Call for Participants

Mon May 20 01:18:26 UTC 2002

Hi all -

NANOG is only three weeks away and Monday evening at NANOG there will be 
another Peering BOF ; thanks to those that suggested this on the survey forms!

We'll do this the same way as last time / the same way the Peering 
Personals ran at the last GPF:

*Peering Coordinators*: Send me the completed RSVP form below.
I'll assemble these into logos, icons, AS#s and contact info
With this backdrop, each of you in turn get a chance to stand up and
    a) introduce yourself, your network,
    b) what you are looking for in a peer,
    c) why folks should want to peer with you, and
    d) which locations you currently or plan to peer.

Making the initial contact with the potential peer is (oddly enough) the 
most difficult parts of peering, and the Peering Personals has proven to be 
an effective (and lively!) way to make those initial contacts. So *Peering 
Coordinators* - send me those RSVPs !

Since we only have 90 minutes I'm going to limit the number of Peering 
Coordinators to 25 or so. If there is time remaining we'll use the rest of 
the time for ad hoc Peering Personals as we did last time.

A couple comments: I noticed on the thread "Interconnects" folks were 
talking about willingness to peer and MLPAs. At least from the 
conversations I had during my research on Peering, I found relatively 
little interest in MLPAs. For those using contracts for peering, folks 
preferred to control peering using their own contracts written by their 
lawyers, stating their evolving peering terms and conditions, and generally 
felt somewhat like they were losing control by signing up to a MLPA document.

At the same time, I have found from running these Peering Personals and 
talking with these Peering Coordinators, that maybe 80% of all Peering 
Coordinators had a relatively open peering policy. By "Relatively Open" I 
mean that they would peer in any single location or multiple location with 
companies that they would not consider to be a prospective customer. This 
openness was surprising given all the huff and puff on mailing lists over 
the years about *not* being able to get peering.  We'll see if my 80% 
figure rings true at the Peering BOF, and I'll share a couple anecdotes 
about an emerging set of significant traffic open peers at the Peering BOF.

Bill

------------------ RSVP FORM ------------------------------ Clip Here 
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Please Fill out and e-mail to wbn at equinix.com with Subject: Peering BOF V

Name: ______________________
Email: ______________________
Title:   ______________________
Company: ___________________
AS#(s): _____________________

Check each that applies:

___ We are an ISP (sell access to the Internet)
           -- OR --
___ We are a Non-ISP (content company, etc.)

___ We are Content-Heavy
          -- OR --
___ We are Access-Heavy

___ We generally require peering in multiple locations
          -- OR --
___ We will peer with anyone in any single location

___Peering with Content Players or Content Heavy ISPs is OK by us
___ We have huge volumes of traffic (lots of users and/or lots of content)
(Huge: > 1 Gbps total outbound traffic to peers and transit providers)
___ We have a global network
___ We require written contracts for peering
___ We have a U.S. Nation-Wide Backbone (East Coast, West Coast, and at 
least one location in the middle)

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