Connectivity to Latin American NRENs

[Larry J. Blunk]

William F. Maton Sotomayor wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Joe Abley wrote:
>
>> On 11-Oct-2007, at 0420, Gert Doering wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 02:33:26AM +0200, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
>>>> this is my usual whining about the sad state of the global IPv6 
>>>> routing
>>>> in certain parts of the DFZ. Today's episode is about the mess one has
>>>> to cross when trying to reach most educational destinations in Latin
>>>> America as well as Canada. I've tried to reach someone responsible by
>>>> mail for the last four weeks, but failed to get any response.
>>>
>>> Next week there's the NANOG meeting in the US.
>>>
>>> Is someone on this list who would volunteer to take this to NANOG, and
>>> raise a stink^Wgood discussion on the topic?
>>
>> I'm not sure how many CANARIE people generally come to NANOG. A 
>> better bet is to raise the issue with Bill St Arnaud and see what he 
>> says.
>
> Very, very few -if any- come out anymore as a general rule.  There was 
> a consensus some time back in the Canadian NREN community that NANOG 
> didn't relate to NREN work in Canada.
>
> However, some of the stinky^Wgood discussions usually point somewhere 
> to Internet 2, although it was my understanding that this had been 
> sorted out.  I've also raised issues with CANARIE regarding access to 
> IPv6 networks through the GEANT peering with some, albeit slower 
> success.  I'm not sure that it's a technical issue so much as a policy 
> one at times.
>
> But, they will listen, so feel free to contact 'eng -at- canarie dot 
> ca' to glean a response from them.
>
>> As for other educational networks, I kind of doubt that NANOG is the 
>> right audience, since anybody there from an NREN is probably a 
>> researcher rather than a policymaker. But you never know, I guess. 
>> There are lightning talk slots open if people want to stand up and 
>> speak to the crowd.
>
> There is sometimes one or two representing an Internet 2-connected org 
> that appears on the attendee list, but I don't know if that's the case 
> lately.
>
> wfms

  Actually, this coming NANOG is pretty well attended by engineering 
types from
Internet2 connected orgs.   I counted about 9 or 10 orgs sending engineers,
plus an engineer from the Internet2 NOC.

 -Larry Blunk
   Merit