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Title: Understanding Internet Infrastructure: an Overview of Technology and Terminology completed

Concise Description:
The workshop will provide an educational, factual backdrop to the policy debates which will be the focus of the IGF. Many people in the civil society and intergovernmental spheres, whose interest in Internet governance is relatively recent, are potentially disadvantaged in fully participating in the debate by the abstruse technical terminology and concepts. This workshop will serve as a layperson’s introduction to the topology of the Internet, providing definitions and explanations for key terms like transit, peering, hot-potato, exchange point, root and top-level domain name server, routing and forwarding, and the International Standards Organization’s seven-layer protocol model.

The sponsoring coalition’s composition is purposely intended to be nonpolitical, focusing instead upon the objective facts of the engineering basis of the Internet, and its composition ensures its adherence to multi-stakeholder principles. Coalition members represent the governmental, NGO, civil society, Internet governance, and commercial sectors, from both developing and developed nations, and the northern and southern hemispheres. A comprehensive spectrum of backgrounds and interests are represented: domain names, number resources, content provision, critical infrastructure, academic networking, datacenters, and regulatory oversight. Moreover, the three speakers each have backgrounds in both commercial and noncommercial networking, with a historical perspective spanning the rise and fall of many different networking technologies. They represent two ethnicities, both genders and three continents. Likewise, the workshop provides different perspectives on the issues under discussion because the backgrounds of the speakers are academic, commercial, governmental, NGO, Internet governance, and technical community, and each speaker has a very different background of professional experience.

The Coalition and this workshop are organized in a manner that promotes the terms of the Tunis Agenda in general and paragraphs 8, 9, 18, 23(a), 23(c), 26(g), 27(j), 49, 50(b) and (c), 51, 53, and 72 more specifically.

Which of the five broad IGF Themes or the Cross-Cutting Priorities does your workshop fall under?
Capacity Building

Have you organized an IGF workshop before? Yes

If so, please provide the link to the report:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/2008-igf-hyderabad/event-reports/72-workshops/377-the-role-of-internet-exchange-points-in-creating-internet-capacity-and-bringing-autonomy-to-developing-nations

Would you be the Workshop organizer? Yes

If so, who would you approach as co-organizers ? If not, who do you think should organize it?
Mark Tinka has been one of the principal instructors and organizers of AfNOG, the African Network Operator’s Group, since its inception, as well as being the principal network architect of Africa Online’s network backbone in Uganda, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe, prior to joining AIMS in Malaysia.

Barbara Fraser is the chairman of the board of directors of the Public Interest Registry, is an active contributor and working group chair in the Internet Engineering Task Force, is a past boardmember of the Internet Society, and has been a delegate to the G-8 cybercrime workshops on behalf of her employer, Cisco Systems.

Bill Woodcock is the principal author of PCH’s courseware material, and personally conducts more than a third of PCH’s Internet infrastructure workshops. In addition to his research and education background, Bill was the network architect of an Internet service provider backbone in the United States and Europe for thirteen years.

All three of the co-organizers have confirmed their support, attendance, and willingness to speak in the session.

Each of these speakers could reasonably be considered a "main actor in the field," and each was a first-choice. That is, there are no preferred speakers who have not been approached. In the event that any of the above speakers finds themselves unable to attend at the last minute, Richard Lamb (IANA), German Valdez (APNIC), Christian O'Flaherty (Global Crossing), and Nishal Goburdhan (Internet Solutions) have all spoken on this workshop in past years, and expressed their willingness to stand in again if needed.

The Workshop is proposed on behalf of:The Caribbean Telecommunications Union, Cisco, Afilias, AfriNIC, ARIN, AIMS, the NRO, the Jamaican Office of Utilities Regulation, and PCH

Contact Person: Bill Woodcock

2010 IGF: Vilnius

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