NTAC Peering Working Group

["Spears, Christopher M." <>]

Hello Group,

Exploring the potential for a FTW on Peering & Routing, I’ve come up with the 
following outline for the curriculum.  On a broad level, I’d like to simply 
assess consensus on the viability of a such a workshop.   If there’s either 
insufficient demand or content, then it may not be worth the effort to put 
on.   If there is interest, then I’d like to solicit comments or proposed 
changes from the group.

Overview of Internet2 layer-3 services
 - services, support structures
 - topologies, differences, similarities
 - routing policy of each service
Interdomain Routing 201
- Not a primer on BGP (i.e. 101)
- Best (and permissible) practices
Utilizing provided policy levers
- traffic engineering using BGP communities, MED
- impact of NET+
- managing asymmetry
Internet2 Tools:
- Router-proxy
- SNAPP
- Deepfield (w/NDA)
Other tools:
 - route-views, peeringdb.com
 - RADb, IRR, RDAP
 - flow data, snmp
 - on-net cache/appliance
Pulling it together
- Analyzing and classifying traffic to identify your needs
- Generating & implementing policy for your institution(s)
- Applying more broadly to your downstream members/customers
Future:
- Identify Peering Service blind-spots
- What additional tools and reporting would be useful?
- How to improve services or features?

This would be heavily focused on making sure connectors can fully leverage 
their Layer-3 services from Internet2, but would also impress ways to make 
policy choices applicable within their own networks.   This would not be an 
introduction to inter-domain routing, BGP 101, etc.    The prerequisites 
would be familiarity with BGP, knowledge of how your organization connects to 
Internet2 and the Peering Service, and being in a position to effect change.

Glad to discuss on-list, off-list, or on the next P&R WG call.

Regards,
Chris