Hi Bill,
I'd be happy to review your paper.
Hope you're doing fine in the US, in these times of turmoil.
Best regards,
Wouter
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Subject: The Evolution of the U.S. Peering Ecosystem
Hi all -
I've been working on documenting some of the significant
disruption from and aftermath of the Telecom collapse of
1999/2000, focusing specifically on the operations community
and the Peering Ecosystem in particular. I spent a lot of
time speaking with Peering Coordinators to document the first
order effects and some of the second order effects of the
bankruptcies. I found some pretty interesting and fundamental
changes in how the Internet is interconnected. Several new
players have had a huge impact on what I call the Internet
Regional Peering Ecosystem. I presented a draft of this
research at the GPF VII in Ashburn, Virginia last month and
would love to have a few more reviewers give it a read and
provide feedback.
I pasted the abstract below. Thanks!
Bill
Abstract
A new Internet Peering Ecosystem is rising from the Ashes of
the 1999/2000 U.S. Telecommunications Sector crash. Global
Internet Transit Providers have gone bust and a critical
broadband infrastructure provider has failed, leaving in
their wake a large set of Internet players to fend for
themselves to provide their customers with Internet services.
A broad set of Service Providers that were once focused only
on growing their market share (at any cost) now are bending
down to shave pennies off of their cost structure. Those who
can not prove the viability of their business model while
satisfying their customer demands are out of business.
In this paper we share research carried out over the last
four years with hundreds of Peering Coordinators to document
the recent chaotic evolution of the Peering Ecosystem. We do
this by first defining the notion of an Internet Peering
Ecosystem, an Internet Region and Interconnection Region.
We find in each Internet Peering Ecosystem three distinct
categories set of participants, each with their own sets of
characteristics and corresponding motivations and
interconnection dynamics. We describe four classes of Peering
Inclinations as articulated in Peering Policies.
The bulk of the paper however focuses on the Evolution of the
U.S. Peering Ecosystem. Several key players, some abandoned
by their service providers, have entered into the Peering
Ecosystem and caused a significant disruption to the
Ecosystem. Peer-to-Peer application traffic has grown to
represent a significant portion of their expense. We describe
five major events and three emerging dynamics in the Peering
Ecosystem that have had and continue to have a
disintermediation effect on the Tier 1 ISPs.
In the appendix we share a simple mathematical Internet
Peering Model that can be used to demonstrate this Peering
Ecosystem evolution. While not complete or by any means
precise, it does allow us to demonstrate the affect of these
disruptions in the Peering Ecosystem.
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