Packet Clearing House (PCH)

PCH in the Press

June 16, 2008:	PCH Research Director Bill Woodcock speaks on "Assuring High Availability of Critical Services in the Internet of the Future" at the OECD Ministerial on the Future of the Internet Economy Forum in Seoul, Korea. More...
June 3, 2008:	PCH Internet Analyst and SANOG Program Committee Chair Gaurab Raj Upadhaya speaks on the South Asian Network Operators Group (SANOG) at AFNOG, Rabat Morocco. More...
May 28, 2008:	PCH Research Director Bill Woodcock presents on "Global Anycast Hosting Platform for ccTLD, in-addr & Root DNS" at the IX Latin American & Caribbean ccTLDs Organization (LACTLD) Associates Meeting in Salvador-Bahia, Brazil. More...
March 21, 2008:	PCH receives research funding from the DHS Cyber Security Research and Development program for the development and deployment of a tool for detection and prevention of anomalous routing assertions within the context of large-scale routing announcements.
March 21, 2008:	PCH receives research funding from the DHS Cyber Security Research and Development program for work to enhance the INOC-DBA voice-over-IP hotline system, used by NOC operators to coordinate responses to both routine and emergency situations in Internet management.
February 20, 2008:	PCH Internet Analyst and APRICOT Program Committee Chair Gaurab Raj Upadhaya, Jonny Martin and Ed Lewis lead a VOIP Deployment Workshop at APRICOT Taipei, February 20-24. More...
February 11, 2008:	PCH Internet Economics Analyst/Staff Engineer Gaurab Raj Upadhaya participated in a panel on an Update on Internet Governance at the ICANN New Delhi Meeting, Feb. 10-15, 2008. More...
November 20, 2007:	PCH Internet Analyst Gaurab Raj Upadhaya chairs a panel on Peering at MENOG 2, in Doha, Qatar. More...
September 4, 2007:	PCH Research Director Bill Woodcock and Internet Economics Analyst/Staff Engineer Gaurab Raj Upadhaya lead a tutorial on "ISP Operations and IXPs" at the 24th APNIC Open Policy Meeting / SANOG 10, New Delhi, India. More...
August 6, 2007:	PCH Staff Engineer Gaurab Raj Upadhaya and Faraz Shamim from Cisco Systems lead a workshop on IPv6 in Wellington, New Zealand, supported by InternetNZ. More...
July 9, 2007:	PCH Internet Economics Analyst/Staff Engineer Gaurab Raj Upadhaya and Cisco Systems' Philip Smith lead a Routing and BGP Multihoming Workshop at intERLab Training Center, AIT, Thailand. More...
June 21, 2007:	PCH Internet Analyst Gaurab Raj Upadhaya and Jonny Martin present on VoIP implementation and applications, including the INOC-DBA hotline system, at the Third PacNOG Meeting, Conference and Educational Workshop, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. More...
April 4, 2007:	PCH Internet Analyst Gaurab Raj Upadhaya speaks on "Forming the NPIX" at the Middle East Network Operators Group (MENOG) 1 Meeting, Bahrain More...
April 3, 2007:	PCH Research Director Bill Woodcock speaks on "Proxy Cache and Regulation" at the Middle East Network Operators Group (MENOG) 1 Meeting, Bahrain More...
March 22, 2007:	The Digital Freedom Initiative is coordinated by the U.S. Department of State, under the leadership of Ambassador David A. Gross, U.S. Coordinator for International Communication and Information Policy, in partnership with USAID, the Peace Corps, and other government agencies. DFI works in developing countries to broaden the social and economic benefits which accrue from ICT regulatory policies that foster competition and transparency. The Global Digital Freedom Institute (GDFI) is a non-profit organization which has been formed to provide expertise and resources in support of DFI. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss potential projects that the Federal government could develop in cooperation with the private sector and NGOs, under the auspices of the Digital Freedom Initiative. We hope to identify projects that will promote the foreign policy goals of free and competitive access to information and the Internet, while simultaneously aiding the work of organizations building ICT infrastructure in developing countries. Deputy U.S. Coordinator for International Communication and Information Policy Ferial Ara Saeed and DFI Director Tom Carnegie will listen to ideas and incorporate participant input into final project proposals for DFI in 2007. The Federal government and the private sector will select one or two projects as the signature projects for DFI in 2007.
March 8, 2007:	PCH Research Director Bill Woodcock and Research Program Manager Ross Stapleton-Gray present an INOC-DBA update at ICIW-2 in Monterey, California.
March 3, 2007:	PCH Research Director Bill Woodcock leads a two-day round of policy discussions regarding Malaysia's Internet traffic exchange environment, in Kuala Lumpur.
March 1, 2007:	PCH Research Director Bill Woodcock leads a panel discussion on the role of government in Internet traffic exchange, during APRICOT 2007 in Bali. Panel participants included Kurtis Lindqvist, NetNod and EuroIX; Gregory Massel, of the South African ISP Association and the board of the Johannesburg Internet Exchange; Brokaw Price, peering coordinator for Yahoo; Jonny Martin, on behalf of New Zealand's IXPs; Lane Patterson, of Equinix; Maurice Dean, peering coordinator for Google; Toshinori Ishii, of JPNAP; Winston Qiu, of China Netcom; and Amitabh Singhal, of the National Internet Exchanges of India. Questions addressed in this ninety-minute discussion included: Is there a role for government in regulating IXPs? Is there a role for government in mandating ISPs' participation in IXPs? Is there a role for government in mandating peering partners, or regulating the terms or uniformity of peering agreements? Is there a taxable function at IXPs, and should there be if the IXP is not otherwise collecting revenue? Is there a role for governments, governmental agencies, or QUANGOs in directly operating or managing IXPs? Is there a role for governments in protecting IXPs against technical or policy mismanagement?
February 26, 2007:	PCH Research Director Bill Woodcock teaches a one-day workshop on Internet Exchange Point construction, in conjunction with APRICOT 2007 in Indonesia.
January 31, 2007:	PCH Research Director Bill Woodcock speaks on the need for Internet instrumentation at OECD/NSF workshop on the Future of the Internet. More...
January 23, 2007:	PCH Research Director Bill Woodcock presents about Network growth for ISPs in developing countries at the SANOG meeting in Sri Lanka. More...
November 14, 2006:	PCH Internet Economic Analyst Gaurab Raj Upadhaya talks about Regional Internet Exchanges at the RIPE NCC regional Meeting in Bahrain. More...
September 6, 2006:	PCH Internet Analyst and SANOG Program Committee Chair Gaurab Upadhaya talks on "AS-path analysis: testing claims of Tier 1 status and examining BGP routing anomalies" at APNIC 22. More...
September 6, 2005:	PCH Research Program Manager Vest discusses Internet production measurement and localization at the APNIC 20 Open Policy Meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam. More...
July 20, 2005:	PCH Internet Analyst and SANOG Program Committee Chair Gaurab Upadhaya presents a five-day workshop on network security best practices at SANOG VI in Thimphu, Bhutan. More...
June 28, 2005:	PCH Research Director Bill Woodcock speaks about Internet traffic measurement and localization opportunities at NAPla 2005 in Lima, Peru. More...
June 22, 2005:	PCH Research Director Bill Woodcock joins a panel of Internet policy experts to discuss critical policy challenges at opportunities at Supernova 2005 in San Francisco.
May 25, 2005:	PCH Research Program Manager Tom Vest moderates the Peering Panel at ISPCon Spring 2005 in Baltimore, Maryland. With a focus on peering and interconnection in Canada, Mexico, and the United States, this year's panel includes PCH Research Director Bill Woodcock, Davel Wodelet of Shaw Cable, Protel's Alejandro Pineda Mathus, and Teleglobe global peering coordinator Sylvie Laperriere. More...
May 17, 2005:	PCH Network Architect Steve Gibbard talks about local communications in the Internet's "spur" regions at NANOG34 in Seattle, Washington. Internet Economic Analyst Gaurab Upadhaya leads the NANOG34 BoF on PCH's INOC-DBA (Inter-NOC Dial-by-ASN) hotline phone system More...
May 6, 2005:	PCH Research Program Manager Tom Vest talks about empirical foundations for normative Internet policy development at the Oxford Internet Institute's Conference on Internet Governance.
April 28, 2005:	PCH Research Program Manager Tom Vest explains key technical and economic differences IP address allocation and Internet production for the online Internet policy journal CircleID. More...
April 23, 2005:	PCH Research Director Bill Woodcock talks about the economics of Internet traffic exchange at the 2005 Conference on Technology, Innovation, and Learning in Developing Countries, co-sponsored by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. More...
April 18, 2005:	The Public Interest Registry, a not-for-profit corporation created by the Internet Society (ISOC) to manage the .ORG domain, announces the appointment of PCH Research Director Bill Woodcock to the .ORG Advisory Council. The Advisory Council is one of PIR's key resources established to solicit input from and be responsive to the needs, concerns, and views of the global non-commercial Internet community in the management of the .ORG Internet domain registry.
March 16, 2005:	PCH Research Program Manager Tom Vest presents "The Wealth of Networks" as part of the UC Berkeley School of Information Management and Sciences (SIMS) 2005 Distinguished Lecture Series.
March 16, 2005:	Computerworld New Zealand marks the activation of the Anycast I-Root DNS server at the Wellington Internet Exchange. The deployment was supported by InternetNZ, Packet Clearing House, and Autonomica AB. More...
March 2, 2005:	New Zealand's CityLink recognizes PCH and Autonomica for their "significant assistance" in deploying a new I-Root mirror at the Wellington Internet Exchange (WIX). More...
February 25, 2005:	APIA Vice Chair Gaurab Upadhaya and APRICOT Program Committee Co-Chair Tom Vest welcome network operators to APRICOT 2005 in Kyoto, Japan. Tom joins Gaurab in presenting a three-day workshop on network management best practices (February 18-20). PCH Research Director Bill Woodcock presents a tutorial on Internet Exchange Point (IXP) infrastructure, operations, and policies on February 22. Bill, Gaurab, and Tom participate in the 2005 Peering Forum (February 23).
February 13, 2005:	PCH Analyst and SANOG Chair Gaurab Upadhaya welcomes network operators to SANOG V in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Gaurab joins Worldlink Nepal's Vicky Shresthra in presenting a five-day workshop on network security best practices. Conference also features advice from PCH Network Architect Steve Gibbard on how to insulate local networks from remote problems, and an extended tutorial on Internet Exchange Point (IXP) infrastructure, operations, and policies led by Research Director Bill Woodcock. More...
February 4, 2005:	PCH Research Director Bill Woodcock chairs the INOC-DBA BOF and gives a talk exploring Economic Trends in Internet Exchanges at the NZNOG'05 in Hamilton, New Zealand.
January 31, 2005:	PCH Network Architect Steve Gibbard gives a presentation on the benefits of routing looking-glasses at NANOG 33 in Las Vegas. More...
January 19, 2005:	PCH Researchers Bill Woodcock and Tom Vest talk about Infrastructure, Interconnection, and Internet Exchange Points at a joint luncheon sponsored by the NTIA, the FCC Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis, and the State Department Office of Communications and Information Policy.
January 18, 2005:	With Cisco URP support, PCH Research Program Manager Tom Vest presents a semester-length senior seminar on the Global Information Economy at the VCU School of World Studies.
January 11, 2005:	PCH Researchers Bill Woodcock and Tom Vest give a private briefing to industry leaders in Washington, D.C.
January 1, 2005:	PCH Internet Analyst Gaurab Upadhaya's overview of wireless networking in Nepal appears in the new Sage India title, "Asia Unplugged: The Wireless and Mobile Media Boom in the Asia Pacific." More...
January 1, 2005:	Cisco Systems recognizes PCH contributions to international scholarly research and research network development with a University Research program (URP) award.
November 30, 2004:	The Dhaka-based Daily Star newspaper recognizes PCH's "remarkable donations" to the newly established Bangladesh Internet Exchange (BDIX). PCH Analyst Gaurab Upadhaya joins Cisco's Philip Smith in presenting a series of workshops for prospective BDIX members; twelve networks join the exchange during the first week of operation. More...
November 15, 2004:	PCH Internet Analyst Gaurab Upadhaya talks about the INOC-DBA hotline system at the LINX meeting in London, England. More...
November 4, 2004:	PCH Research Program Manager Tom Vest moderates the Peering Panel at ISPCon Fall 2004 in Santa Clara, California. Participants include PCH Research Director Bill Woodcock, Equinix Chief Technical Liaison Bill Norton, Switch and Data's Vice President for Engineering Gene Lew, and PIPE Networks Technical Director Stephen Baxter. More...
October 16, 2004:	PCH Network Architect Steve Gibbard gives a talk on peering economics at the Switch & Data Peering Forum VI in Washington D.C. More...
October 2, 2004:	PCH Research Program Manager Tom Vest gives a talk on The Wealth of Networks at the Telecom Policy Research Conference in Washington D.C. More...
September 24, 2004:	PCH Internet Analyst Gaurab Upadhaya provides an INOC-DBA update at the RIPE meeting in Manchester, England. More...
September 15, 2004:	PCH receives research funding from the DHS Advanced Research Projects Agency for the development of research tools for network security analysis.
September 3, 2004:	PCH Research Program Manager Tom Vest joins other network operators in a discussion of how academic research can contribute to real-world network troubleshooting at the SIGCOMM 2004 NETTS Workshop. More...
September 1, 2004:	PCH receives research funding from the Open Society Institute for the development of open source network management tools for small and medium-sized network operators in developing countries. More...
August 31, 2004:	PCH Internet Analyst Gaurab Upadhaya leads a tutorial on the Internet Route Registry at APNIC 18 in Nadi, Fiji. More...
August 15, 2004:	Cisco Systems provides support for PCH research on the causes and consequences of inetnum whois inaccuracies.
July 29, 2004:	PCH Analyst and SANOG Chair Gaurab Upadhaya welcomes network operators to SANOG IV in Kathmandu, Nepal. Speaking as newly appointed interim CEO, Gaurab provides an update on the Nepal Internet Exchange (NPIX). Network Architect Steve Gibbard also presents an overview of current PCH network and routing research. More...
June 25, 2004:	PCH Research Program Manager Tom Vest gives a talk on The Wealth of Networks at NANOG 31 in San Francisco. More...
April 30, 2004:	Newly appointed PCH Research Program Manager Tom Vest discusses the challenge of networking inside the Chinese autonomous routing domain at the UC Berkeley China's Digital Futures Conference. More...