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The Quilt's Peering Workshop - Call for Presentations


 

There are several workshop topics for which we are soliciting presentations. (See below.)  The presentation timeslots are 30 minutes.   If you or someone at your Quilt organization would like to do either an overview or a case-study relevant to one of these topics, please send your presentation submission not later than Sept. 11th to Jen Leasure <jen@thequilt.net> and Jan Eveleth <eveleth@pnw-gigapop.net>.

 

Presentation Submission
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Name of Presenter with contact information
Quilt Organization
Topic of presentation
One-paragraph summary of what you plan to present. Please indicate if this
is generic information, a case-study, or some combination.

Topics
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Category: Business & Administrative Facets of Peering

    o Financial: cost of peering, savings, return on investment; how
       peering affects your overall business model, service definitions,
       and pricecard
    o Peering policies: yours and theirs; when to peer, when not to peer--
       the politics/business view

    o Peering and national legislation

 

Category:  Technical Aspects of Peering

 

    o Hardware architectural approaches and constraints

    o BGP policies i.e. use of communities Logical Routers & VRFs etc.

    o Route Registries
       - What are they, how do they work and why should I care?
       - Languages RIPE-181, RPSL

    o When to peer, when not to peer – the technical view

Category:  Optical Peering

    o Current hand-offs between RON’s
       - Updates
       - Business models
       - MoU’s

    o GLIF activities