Well, speaking as one who wrote an ISP-specific, although not NOC-specific book about a decade ago, it doesn't seem as if there is a commercial motivation to update them. For the record, it's _Building Service Provider Networks_ (Wiley, 2001), and I'm proud of it.
Nevertheless, I'm not opposed to trying to create updated open-source guidance. I do a good deal of work with http://en.citizendium.org, a real-name Wiki that is trying to reach critical mass. Anybody interested in collaborating? I'd actually started more on RPSL and peering than first-tier ops, but hadn't done anything more for lack of activity there. Certainly, I could port some of my NANOG tutorials, not that I have the PPT for many but just the PDF. > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert E. Seastrom [mailto:r...@seastrom.com] > Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 8:09 AM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Books for the NOC guys... > > > This morning I went digging for a book to recommend that someone in > our NOC read in order to understand at a high level how Internet > infrastructure works (bgp, igps, etc) and discovered that the old > standbys (Huitema, Halabi, Perlman) have all not been updated in a > decade or so. > > On the one hand, they're all still quite relevant since there hasn't > been anything really earth-shattering in that department, but they are > all going to be lean to nonexistent on stuff like IPv6 and NLRI negotiation. > > So, what are you having your up-and-coming NOC staff read? > > Thanks, > > -r >