Oct 3 meeting summary

["Mark Day" <markday@cisco.com>]

I will be sending out more complete minutes including the Q&A notes when I
have those all together.

This summary and links to the presentations will go up on
www.content-peering.org a little later today.

Comments and corrections are welcome.

--Mark


CPWG First Meeting
Boston, Oct 3 2000

Mark Day, chair, opened the meeting.

Randy Bush, IETF Area Director for Operations and Management, spoke briefly
about the IETF and the importance of an open process.

Mark Day made a short presentation about the "model document" and answered
questions about it.

Don Gilletti made a short presentation about the "scenarios document" and
answered questions about it.

Raj Nair made a short presentation about the "accounting document" and
answered questions about it.

Gary Tomlinson made a short presentation about the "architecture document"
and answered questions about it.

The group discussed possible small-group activities for the afternoon,
building a list of several possibilities. A subsequent show of hands
indicated that there were two primary areas of interest: architecture and
accounting, each with somewhat more than 30 people expressing interest.

The afternoon discussions started on architecture but turned into more
fundamental questions about the problems to be solved. Several possible
approaches were identified, with the most popular version being that we were
to define a standard interface to a CDN.  The design team was charged with
both clarifying the task at hand and establishing the nature of the
connection between CDN peering and IP peering.

A number of service providers expressed interest in participating in some
form of early-adopter field trials. The volunteers included Digital Island,
AT&T, Shortest Path Networks, NonStopNet, Genuity, Apogee Networks, NetSat
Express, Activia, Mirror Image, Speedera, ServInt, iScale, Cidera, and Cable
& Wireless. This group will have a conference call 11th October at 1pm EDT
to discuss next steps.