Hi Bill, I'd be happy to review your paper. Hope you're doing fine in the US, in these times of turmoil. Best regards,
Wouter > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of William B. Norton > Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 7:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: The Evolution of the U.S. Peering Ecosystem > > > Hi all - > > I've been working on documenting some of the significant > disruption from and aftermath of the Telecom collapse of > 1999/2000, focusing specifically on the operations community > and the Peering Ecosystem in particular. I spent a lot of > time speaking with Peering Coordinators to document the first > order effects and some of the second order effects of the > bankruptcies. I found some pretty interesting and fundamental > changes in how the Internet is interconnected. Several new > players have had a huge impact on what I call the "Internet > Regional Peering Ecosystem." I presented a draft of this > research at the GPF VII in Ashburn, Virginia last month and > would love to have a few more reviewers give it a read and > provide feedback. > > I pasted the abstract below. Thanks! > > Bill > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Abstract > > A new Internet Peering Ecosystem is rising from the Ashes of > the 1999/2000 U.S. Telecommunications Sector crash. Global > Internet Transit Providers have gone bust and a critical > broadband infrastructure provider has failed, leaving in > their wake a large set of Internet players to fend for > themselves to provide their customers with Internet services. > A broad set of Service Providers that were once focused only > on growing their market share (at any cost) now are bending > down to shave pennies off of their cost structure. Those who > can not prove the viability of their business model while > satisfying their customer demands are out of business. > > In this paper we share research carried out over the last > four years with hundreds of Peering Coordinators to document > the recent chaotic evolution of the Peering Ecosystem. We do > this by first defining the notion of an Internet Peering > Ecosystem, an Internet Region and Interconnection Region. > We find in each Internet Peering Ecosystem three distinct > categories set of participants, each with their own sets of > characteristics and corresponding motivations and > interconnection dynamics. We describe four classes of Peering > Inclinations as articulated in Peering Policies. > > The bulk of the paper however focuses on the Evolution of the > U.S. Peering Ecosystem. Several key players, some abandoned > by their service providers, have entered into the Peering > Ecosystem and caused a significant disruption to the > Ecosystem. Peer-to-Peer application traffic has grown to > represent a significant portion of their expense. We describe > five major events and three emerging dynamics in the Peering > Ecosystem that have had and continue to have a > disintermediation effect on the Tier 1 ISPs. > > In the appendix we share a simple mathematical Internet > Peering Model that can be used to demonstrate this Peering > Ecosystem evolution. While not complete or by any means > precise, it does allow us to demonstrate the affect of these > disruptions in the Peering Ecosystem. > > > /* > William B. Norton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 650.315.8635 > Co-Founder and Chief Technical Liaison > Equinix, Inc. > */ > > >
