POC details for peers/NAPs/NOCs (was Re: Need routing engineer from Verio)

[Lauren F. Nowlin]

Hi Dave, Dave & NANOGrs,

I keep NOC info current from Jared's wonderful site at 
http://puck.nether.net/   The incentive should be to update your peers with 
the 'human' sources via e-mail and update Jared's page with the 'role' sources.

Palm-to-Palm beaming limits the distribution to those who should have a 
valid reason for the data (i.e. no sales/vendor).  Yes, the updates are 
awkward... but I also have 'human' peering & NAP contacts subdivided out 
into Asia/Pac, US & Europe that I will not share unless you are a peer in 
that region.

During APRICOT this week in Seoul I'll gladly beam NOC details to non-peers 
and peer details to peers after you give your details to add to the 
mix.   Offer stands at each NANOG, RIPE, JPIX mtg., etc.

BTW, Randy's network handles 'peering@' very well.  Unfortunately too many 
other networks around the world haven't learned how standardization can 
help...

Take care,
-Ren

Lauren F. Nowlin, ren@onyx.net / peering@onyx.net
Director, Peering & Interconnects - http://www.onyx.net/peering/
Onyx Networks, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pacific Gateway Exchange
Voice: 650-558-3262,  Fax: 650-558-3160, Cellphone: 650-281-6963

At 09:34 PM 2/27/00 -0500, Dave Curado wrote:

> > What I think is import for the new engineers is to have a list of
> > those phone numbers handy.  Lauren Nowlin was nice enough to import
> > her list of every noc into my Palm.  I think it would be wonderfully
> > useful to make such a Palm list public so every engineer can have it
> > handy everywhere they are.
>
> Or how about just text.  I've often thought it would be a good idea
> to share the various phone numbers we all have -- the only problem
> is keeping the list up to date.  As these numbers change quite a bit,
> some verification needs to be put in place.
>
> Perhaps a text based list, in a given format, with a "last verified"
> date included.  That would give the person using it some expectation
> of the validity of the number.  If each contributor of a number would
> verify the numbers before contributing them, the work would be
> distributed, and would stand some chance of making the idea a reality.
>
> If the format (schema) is set to something specific, people can do
> what they want with the information -- push it on to pilots, etc.