Status:
IGF Theme(s) for workshop: Managing Critical Internet Resources
Main theme question address by workshop: Question 1: What is the role and importance of IXPs?
Concise description of the proposed workshop:
This proposed workshop builds upon the successes of prior workshops on Internet Exchange Points conducted by the same organizers in Athens, Rio, Hyderabad, Sharm El Sheikh, Vilnius, and Nairobi. This workshop will cover many of the same broad issues, introducing the technical and economic principles of Internet traffic exchange, but will add depth and detail on the particular topic of the beneficial impact of Internet exchange points on economic opportunity in developing economies.
Several themes will be addressed, particularly how Internet bandwidth, the capacity to route Internet traffic, is produced within Internet exchange points; the role of Internet exchange points in making developing regions politically and economically autonomous; how Internet exchange points foster the development of local content and culture; and how IXPs facilitate other critical infrastructure like the Domain Name System and Internet businesses like content delivery networks and cloud computing.
Best practices and challenges associated with IXP implementation will also be discussed, in order to give workshop attendees a practical roadmap to establishing IXPs in their regions. Each of the panelists has been associated with the construction of multiple successful Internet exchange points in developing countries, and can discuss their direct experiences; collectively, the panelists have been involved with the construction of nearly a third of the world's IXPs.
Background Paper:
Name of the organiser(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder groups:
Bill Woodcock of Packet Clearing House, and Michuki Mwangi of the Internet Society.
Have you, or any of your co-organisers, organised an IGF workshop before?: Yes
Please provide link(s) to workshop(s) or report(s):
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=Workshops2011View&wspid=555#report
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=Workshopsreports2009View&curr=1&wr=99
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/rio_reports/igf-ixp-report-2007.pdf
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Bevil Wooding, moderator, Packet Clearing House
Rodney Taylor, Caribbean Telecommunications Union
Nishal Goburdhan, AfriNIC
Michuki Mwangi, Internet Society
Bill Woodcock, Packet Clearing House
Name of Remote Moderator(s):