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" wmaton@ryouko.imsb.nrc.ca To: torix-members@torix.net 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.htmlOf 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 wbn@DrPeering.net
wfms