We'll try something a bit different this time as well, recruiting a few brave souls to polish their crystal ball and project what they think the Internet Peering Ecosystem will look like in the year 2010. This exercise will hopefully be insightful, interesting, outlandish, or maybe way wrong. In any case, it will certainly help spur discussion among the members of this community. We'll take a look at the transit survey results from the last BOF, if they are available. Peering disclosure has re-emerged as an issue as customers increasingly are interested in ISPs' current and future peering relationships as a proxy for connectivity quality. This leads to the question, are there better metrics for this? We will have a couple people discuss an emerging trend in video distribution that may result in peered traffic that dwarfs today's peered Internet traffic. These are some of the discussions this BOF will facilitate.

As usual, we will use the leftover time at the end of the BOF to allow new folks to introduce themselves to the community to facilitate peering discussions leading into the break.

About the Presenter
Bill Norton is Co-Founder and Chief Technical Liaison for Equinix. He focuses on research on large-scale interconnection and ISP peering, and in particular, scaling Internet operations using optical networking. Bill has published and presented his research in a variety of international forums. From 1987 to 1998, he served in several staff and managerial roles at Merit Network, directing national and international network research and operations activities and serving as NANOG coordinator. Bill received a B.A. in Computer Science and an M.B.A. from the Business School at the University of Michigan, and has been an active member of the Internet Engineering Task Force for the past 15 years.

Bill's main slides
Transit Survey presentation
YouTube peering personals
Dan Golding's Net Neutrality and Peering