Session Description:
There are many essential components of the network infrastructure that play key roles in the journey of an end user’s access to data such as Internet eXchanges, peering and transit, fiber connectivity, and colocation facilities. Building a resilient Internet infrastructure requires not only operators cooperating with each other, but also having policies and investment opportunities that promote fairness and motivate operators in an appropriate way.
In recent years, there have been concerns expressed by the industry, pointing out potential risks to the open Internet and its proper functioning, on regulatory documents which impact BGP and interconnection such as FCC’s draft Declaratory Ruling on the Open Internet and Europe with the EC’s White Paper on Europe’s Digital Infrastructure needs. It is becoming more important for stakeholders across the technical and public policy communities to be in conversation with each other, to take actions that actually help achieve a common goal, while avoiding side effects that may work against resiliency and sustainability.
In our session, an overview of the Internet infrastructure will be presented, introducing the wide range of stakeholders that already cooperate today. The session will explore successes and challenges that each layer of the industry faces in building a resilient Internet such as routing security (a threat to resilience and user safety), peering diversity (maintaining resilient paths for end users), and colocation facility diversity (reducing outage impacts). Ideas will be exchanged on how the technical, academic, and governance sectors can continuously cooperate to solve these challenges and improve the resilience of the Internet.
The session will identify key action items and ideas, and follow up discussions will be held with relevant stakeholders to make progress on Internet network infrastructure resilience.
