[25567] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOG 17 Peering BOF Meeting Notes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Diaz)
Tue Oct 19 22:22:43 1999
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Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 15:34:52 -0400
To: "William B. Norton" <wbn@equinix.com>, Jessica Yu <jyy@ans.net>
From: David Diaz <davediaz@netrail.net>
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I think 'peering person' is a way to broad. Most companies have
someone incharge of determining policy while 2-3 people may actually
'implement' it on the routers. Rumor is there are even Peering and
Steering committees....
At 5:26 AM -0700 10/18/99, William B. Norton wrote:
>At 08:00 AM 10/18/99 -0400, Jessica Yu wrote:
> >>I will not send the database to those who
> >>do not contribute info to the database, nor folks who are not peering
> >>coordinators. I'll send out periodic updates as appropriate.>
> >
> >So if xyz sends in the information and claims to be the peering
> >coordinator of ISP-abc. S/he will get the database information?
> >
> >The point is mechanism(s) of verification may be needed.
>
>Agreed - A couple folks in the BOF suggested that the information *should
>not* be made widely available (like on a public web site for the world to
>see) since it contained personal contact information. At the same time,
>they wanted other peering coordinators (whom they may not know) to have
>access to the info.
>
>The first stab at solving this is to have a human (namely me) in the loop
>and validate each addition. So far there hasn't been a problem. I have run
>into the problem where multiple people from the same company claim to be
>the peering person, but that's a different problem. If there are
>suggestions along this line I'd love to hear them.
>
>Bill
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Thank you,
David Diaz
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