Hi Bill,
Whoops, looks like I was a bit over-enthusiastic in announcing
this then to a few of the lists - but I think there was some beer involved
with that email too. ;-)
Still, it's a great resource to have out there. Thanks for the
effort!
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, William Norton wrote:
>
> On Feb 9, 2009, at 2:52 AM, Fredy Kuenzler wrote:
>
>> FYI ... drpeering.net happend to be a beer idea which came up at the GPF
>> 4.0 in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
>
> Thanks Fredy - that's right. The best ideas happen over beers at conferences
> :-) The announcement was a bit premature...the DrPeering.net site is not
> quite ready for the prime time yet. I'm still mucking around quite a bit with
> it. Early feedback of course is welcome.
>
> The idea for the site came from....
> a) I keep getting the question "Which version of the ____ white paper is the
> latest?" so I decided to make an authoritative website to store (or provide
> links to) the community white papers currently scattered across the web, and
> b) In Punta Cuna, Frank's idea to have me do an "Ask Dr Peering" column for
> the DECIX newsletter, kind of a quarter page mini monthly white paper.
> My thought was to combine the two ; provide a repository for the community
> white papers, to store the Ask Dr Peering columns (after they went into the
> DECIX newsletter) along with material that couldn't fit into the article.
>
> In other words, make DrPeering.net a kind of information repository for the
> peering community.
>
> The work will be funded by exclusive ads for respective segments; DECIX
> exclusive IX sponsor with their logo on the bottom of the main page, and
> other (non-IX) sponsors are being solicited.
>
> Anyway, that is the idea behind the site.
>
> Bill
>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> F.
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded Message -----------
>> From: "William F. Maton Sotomayor" <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Sent: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 19:57:24 -0500 (EST)
>> Subject: [torix-members] Bill Norton's Peering papers (fwd)
>>
>> (Forwarded from a posting I sent to OttIX members)
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Bill Norton of NANOG and Equinix fame has put together a web site
>> dedicating to IX peering, complete with his famous whitepapers. I used a
>> couple of very old versions way back when to convince people at my day job
>> of the value of establishing an IX, and after some searching I found Jake's
>> original web page describing something called OttIX.
>>
>> There have been a lot of updates to his white papers over the years and I'm
>> sure everyone here will find them to be of interest:
>>
>> http://drpeering.net/index.html
>>
>> Of course I'm preaching to the converted, but if anyone here encounters
>> folks who have heard of Internet exchanges, IXs or exchange points and
>> hesitate about connecting to any, the whitepapers might help.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> wfms
>>
>
> William Norton
> [email protected]
>
>
>
wfms
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