Upcoming session on Peering in Bali, Spring 2007

Catching up with Bill Norton of Equinix after 4 years, was good. The last we saw each other was at the Asia Telecom'02 in Hong Kong (see picture). I plan to interview him later for www.getit.org on his views of the hot issues but for now am posting a quick update on him. He has written several interesting whitepapers, including A Business Case for ISP peering http://www.equinix.com/pdf/whitepapers/Business_case.pdf and is now is working on IP video and its impact on backbone providers. Very interesting and good work indeed. He initiated many peering meetings here in the Valley as well as during APRICOT (Asia Pacific Rim Conference on Operational Technology) in Asia. The next APRICOT will be in Bali, Indonesia in Spring next year, and he will be doing another peering roundtable session there. For those of you in the peering community, his meetings are great networking and a place to get things done.