Acknowledgements

 

Thanks to some of the smartest Peering People in the world...

And from the past white papers on Peering...


Business Case for Peering: Jeffrey Pappen (Yahoo!), Mitchell Rose (Digital Island), Dennis L. Shreve (FACET Networks), Jon Castle (Comdisco), Jeff Swinton (Conxion), Jalil Sanad Halim (9 Telecom), Glen Larwill, Nick Monjo (PSINet Australia), Tim Griffin (AT&T Research), Rene Hatem (CA*net3), Todd Braning (Level3), Joe Klein (Cogent), Ren Nowlin (Carrier1), Joe Provo (RCN), Vince  Fuller (MFN), Mike Leber (Hurricane Electric), Brokaw Price (Yahoo! Broadcast),

Waqar Khan (Qwest), John Osman (rigozsaurus.com), Mike Hughes (LINX), Ted Hardie (Equinix), Lane Patterson (Equinix), Jason Starr (Equinix), Nic Lewis (AduroNet),  Wolfgang Tremmel (via Net.Works),  John Zweibel (Procket networks), James Rice (BBC Internet Services) and Beau Sackett (Telus), Martin Levy.


Asia Pacific Peering Guidebook: Lionel Taylor (Reach), Ren Nowlin (SBC), Brokaw Price (Yahoo!), Christian Nielson (Microsoft), James Spenceley (Comindico), Geoff Huston (Telstra), John Milbourne (Newton Technology Partners), Tom Vest (formerly of AOL Asia), Zwickey Cheung (Asia Netcom), Nigel Titley (FLAG Telecom), Joe Abley (ISC), Norman Hoy (MCI), Gavin Tweedie (WAIX), Ryan Sher (FLAG Telecom), Marcellus Nixon (XO Communications), Stuart Deane (AT&T Asia), Sylvie Laperriere (TeleGlobe), Peter Cohen (Telia), Bill Woodcock (PCH), Phil Koen (Equinix), Jonathan Chou (Equinix Asia), Bob Berger (MetroFi), Toshikazu Saito (POWEREDCOM), Lam Hon Kit (Asia Netcom), Akinori Maemura (France Telecom), Fumio Terashima (Japan Telecom), Dorian Kim (NTT/Verio), Christina Chu (NTT/Verio), James Seng (Singapore IDA), Steve Baxter (PIPE Networks),   Marty Gauvin (Hostworks), Phil Tsakaros (Pacific Internet), Sean Carlin (Microsoft), Randy Whitney (MCI), Joe Zhu (China Telecom USA), Joe Provo (RCN), Terry Manderson (APNIC, formerly Optus), Dave McGaugh (PCCW/BTN), Philip Smith (Cisco), Keith Mitchell (XchangePoint), Patrick Gilmore (Akamai), Phil Grasso (NTT), Chris Chaudry (Comindico), Lloyd Taylor (Keynote Systems), Tatsuo Sato (KDDI America), Sam Habash (SuperNews), Joe McGuckin (via.net), Mike Leber (Hurricane Electric), Peter Juffernholz (T-Systems, formerly TeleGlobe), Jeremy Deutsch  (Equinix), Sameer Muhammed (Qatar Telecom), Rob Seastrom (ClueTrust), Mike Hatfield, Guy Tal (Global Crossing), Jerry Murray (Global Voice Network), Jamie Baddeley (fx.net.nz).


US Peering Ecosystem: Ren Nowlin (SBC), Christina Chu (NTT/Verio), Joe Zhu (China Telecom USA), Joe Provo (RCN), Terry Manderson (APNIC–formerly from Optus), Dave McGaugh (PCCW/BTN), Philip Smith (Cisco), Keith Mitchell (ExchangePoint), Fumio Terashima (Japan Telecom America), Geoff Huston (Telstra), Patrick Gilmore (Akamai), Jonathan Chou (Equinix), Phil Grasso (NTT), James Spenceley (Comindico), Chris Chaudry (Comindico), Gavin Tweedie (WAIX), Lloyd Taylor (Keynote Systems), Tatsuo Sato (KDDI America), Sam Habash (SuperNews), Joe McGuckin (Via.Net), Mike Leber (Hurricane Electric), Morgan Snyder (Equinix), Eric Bell (Time Warner Telecom), Peter Cohen (Telia), Dan Golding (AOL), Alexander Tudor and Lance Tatman (Agilent Labs), Eric Aupperle (President Emeritus, Merit Network), Dave Meyer (Sprint, Cisco), Michel Py, Keith Young, Nenad Trifunovic (MCI), Sean Butler, Marcellus Nixon (XO), Mark Seery, Martin Levy.


Peering Ratios: Peter Cohen (Telia Sonera), Richard Steenbergen (nLayer), Patrick Gilmore (Akamai), Vikas Mehta (AOL), Bryan Garrett (BellSouth), Brian Sutterfield (Cox), Kevin Mulvahill (Equinix formerly from @Home), Steve Wilcox (Telecomplete), Louie Lee (Equinix), Brokaw Price (Yahoo!), Joe Provo (RCN), John Curran, Hamish MacEwan (CityLink), Brandon Galbraith, Maureen Carroll (T-Systems), Vince Fuller (Cisco), Joshua Sahala (TWTC), Ren Provo (SBC) .

ATM Make Sense Anymore?  Dorian Kim (NTT/Verio), Ingrid Erkman (ICG), Dave McGaugh (ELI), Eric T. Bell (Time Warner Telecom), Chris Parker (StarNet), Lane Patterson, Jay Adelson, Morgan Snyder, and John Hardie (Equinix), David Diaz (BellSouth), Joe Wood (Accretive Networks), Robert Seastrom (inter.net), Kevin Epperson (Level3), Petri Helenius (FICIX), Scott Sheppard (BellSouth), Ralph Doncaster (iStop.com), Leo Bicknell (ufp.org), Paul Vixie (vix.com), Ian Somerton and Dave Wodelet (Shaw/BigPipe), Tony Hain (Cisco), Jeff S. Wheeler (five-elements.com), Cliff Hafen, Dory Liefer, Shannon Lake (Omnivergent), Nenad Trifunovic (WorldCom), Andre Gironda (eBay), Jeb Linton (EarthLink), Daniel Golding (SockEye), Peter Moyer (Juniper), Louis Lee (Equinix), Waqar Khan (Qwest), Andrew Odlyzko (UMN), Gary Blankenship (Foundry),

IX Playbook: Chris Quesada (PAIX/Switch and Data), Josh Snowhorn (NAP of the Americas/Terremark), Randy Whitney (UUNet).

Video: Vish Yelsangikar (NetFlix), Peter Harrison (NetFlix), Aaron Weintraub (Cogent), Jon Nistor (TorIX), Barrett Lyon (BitGravity), Dave Knight (ISC), Aaron Hughes (Caridien), David Filo (Yahoo!), Jim Goetz (Sequoia Capital), Jason Holloway (DoveTail), Matt Peterson, Richard Steenbergen (nLayer), Lane Patterson (Equinix), Eric Schwartz (Equinix), Pete Ferris (Equinix), David Cheriton (Sun), Andy Bechtolsheim (Sun), Jeffrey Papen (Peak Web Consulting), KC Broberg (Rackable), Henk Goosen (Sun), Geoffrey Noer (Rackable), Jeff Turner (InterStream/nuMetra), Vab Goel (NorWest Venture Partners), Ken Hubbard (Quad), Matt Wood (Equinix), Gary Baldus (LimeLight Networks), Sylvie Laperriere (VSNL), Ted Seely (Sprint), Bryan Sutterfield (Cox), Patrick Gilmore (Akamai), Phil Thomas (Quad), Doug Wilson (Microsoft), Christian Nielsen (Microsoft), Harald Willison (Covad), Davin Overland, Douglas Galbi (FCC), Ren Provo (AT&T), Susan Martens (AT&T), Richard Clarke (AT&T), the Google Network Engineering and Network Architecture team, James Blessing (Entanet), Sean Donelan (Akamai), Allan Leinwand (Panarama Capital), Patrick McCullough (Prism VentureWorks).


ISP & P : Ren Nowlin (Onyx networks), Joe Payne (IXC), Dave Diaz (Netrail), Jake Khuon and Alan Hannan (Global Crossing), Dan Gisi and Jeff Rizzo (Equinix), Patricia Taylor-Dolan (Level 3 Communications), Sean Donelan (AT&T Labs), Avi Freedman (AboveNet), Patrick Gilmore (Onyx), Geoff Huston (Telstra), Steve Meuse (GTE), Aaron Dudek (Sprint), Raza Rizvi (REDNET), Wouter van Hulten (InterXion), Michael Palmaffy (Equinix), and Beau Sackett (Telus), Martin Levy. 


Art of Peering: Joe Klein (Adelphia), Ren Nowlin (SBC Internet), Mitchell Rose (Digital Island/Cable & Wireless), Peter Cohen (Telia), Stephen Stuart (MFN), Jeffrey Papen (Yahoo!), John Harkin (ATG), Ingrid Erkman (ICG), Jeb Linton (EarthLink), Paul Nguyen (Google), Paul Vixie (PAIX), Peter Juffernholz (TeleGlobe), Michael Winslow (Williams), Blake Williams (Williams), Scott J. Ellentuch (TTSG Internet Services), Chris Cousins (Carrier1), Michel Py, William F. Maton, Raven Alder (Intermedia), Kevin Epperson (Level 3/University of Colorado), Geoff Huston (Telstra), Joe St Sauver,  Eric Aupperle (formerly President of Merit), James Rice (BBC Internet Services), Mike Hughes (LINX), Josh Horn (Terramark NOTA), Andrew Partan, Eric Anderson (BT Ignite), Chris Sandford (INS), Avi Freedman (Akamai), (and several folks who asked not to be recognized for contributions), Martin Levy.


Peering at 10G Ren Provo (SBC), Richard Steenbergen (nLayer), James Rice (LoNAP), Todd Underwood (Renesys), Stephen Wilcox (TeleComplete), Vanessa Evans (LINX), Niels Bakker (AMS-IX), Chris Malayter (TDS Telecom), Patrick Gilmore (Akamai), Frank Orloski (T-Systems), Vijay Gill (AOL), Vish Yelsangikar (NetFlix), Nathan Hickson (eBay), Steve Feldman (CNet), Lane Patterson (Equinix), Joy Fender, Falk Bornstaedt (T-Systems), Remco Donker (MCI), Danny McPhearson (Arbor Networks), Josh Snowhorn (NOTA), Vince Fuller (Cisco), Philip Smith (Cisco), Andrew Odlyzko (UMN), Martin Levy.


Provided ideas, suggestions, feedback to this site:  Frank Orlowski (De-CIX), Chris Park (EasyNet), Randy Epstein, Richard Steenbergen (nLayer), Ren Provo (Comcast), Joe Provo (ITA)

Over the last decade or so, the following people have graciously shared data, insights, and suggestions: