NAPLA Meeting announcement

Fri May 25 13:49:42 UTC 2007

Folks,

the slides of the different presentations will be available (I am  
still getting some of them) at lacnic's webpage.

the most important issues discussed were:
	- Several IXPs showed their advance. The traffic is growing so  
several are thinking about increasing their fabric.
	- Ecuador's IXP announced the hosting of a new copy of a root server.
	- We had a very interesting discussion about regional connectivity.  
I believe it helped us all understand the issue and the different  
actors that are involved.

regards,
roque

On May 24, 2007, at 10:19 PM, Karen Rose wrote:

> Folks -
>
> Roque Gagliano, who participated at our meeting in Abuja, moderated  
> the
> NAPLA 2007 conference in Venezuela. It took took place on Tuesday  
> during
> the LACNIC X meeting.
>
> A press release was issued about the event and I though the  
> announcement
> might be of interest to you. It discusses many of the issues we raised
> in Abuja.
>
> Best regards,
> Karen
>
> ===========================
>
>
> Subject: Proposal Presented for Regional Interconnection in Latin
> America and the Caribbean
>
> May 22, 2007 – Isla Margarita – With the attendance of more than 320
> participants from 29 countries, the Regional Interconnection Forum
> NAPLA 2007 was opened this morning, an event that brings together
> representatives of the national interconnection points of the Latin
> American and Caribbean region. This important event was broadcast
> worldwide using modern webcasting technology that allows individuals
> from any region to receive video images and sound in real time and
> even to submit questions to the presenters.
>
> The moderator, Roque Gagliano of Antel Uruguay, reminded the audience
> that many of the goals established during the previous NAP meeting
> have already been accomplished. Traffic exchange points, connectivity
> providers and government representatives met to share the sector's
> state of the art, as well as to state the urgent need to initiate
> applied investigations that will allow interconnecting the different
> countries of Latin America and the Caribbean at regional level. He
> presented a project for the interconnection of two cities on the
> Uruguayan border.
>
> Gabriel Adonaylo of Argentina and Carlos Neira of Colombia
> highlighted the cooperation and shared use of good practices in the
> application and development of infrastructure. The meeting began with
> presentations that reviewed recent activities and future projects of
> NAPs of different countries.
>
> After mentioning the development achieved in different regions of his
> country, Milton Kaoru Kashiwakura of NAP Brazil agreed with other
> presenters on the need to begin investigations on interregional
> traffic and actively promoting the production of local content to
> generate a critical mass of users that will make this initiative
> possible and profitable.
>
> The presentation of Hernan Moreno Escobar of CEPAL covered how the
> goals of the eLAC2007 project are being implemented. Mr Moreno also
> presented some examples of good practices in national and regional
> interconnection. He insisted on the importance of good practices in
> relation to generating common projects such as the one that is
> connecting national education portals.
>
> In addition, LACNIC's Executive Director stated, as a personal view,
> the need to confront difficulties in order to overcome them and to
> take advantage of the opportunities the international situation
> offers the region. Mr Echeberría pondered the need to continue
> working so that technology will be inclusive for everyone. He
> explained that to achieve this it is necessary to solve the issue of
> relative pricing. Quoting Gabriel Adonaylo, he informed that "For the
> same cost as a link between a South American city and the United
> States, it would be possible to contract a link having 60 times
> greater capacity between New York and London."
>
> When recounting the initiatives that had been presented, Roque
> Gagliano, the event's moderator, underlined the fact that several
> participants explained the need to promote the production of regional
> content and promoting the creation of more interesting content
> written in local languages, which In turn would increase local
> traffic and thus, he added, more people will want to connect locally.
>
> To conclude, Mr Gagliano emphasized that it is important to take
> advantage of international fora such as eLAC-2007 and the IGF to
> develop a common vision regarding possible ways of improving
> conditions relative to interconnection costs, to sensitize the
> different stakeholders, and to develop a regional interconnection
> project for Latin America and the Caribbean based on concrete data
> obtained through a parallel traffic measurement project.
>
> As in the case of other organizations of the region, the Regional
> Interconnection Forum NAPLA 2007 is having its meeting during the
> LACNIC X 2007 event, which is being held at Isla Margarita,
> Venezuela, from May 21 to May 25, at the Hotel Hesperia, sponsored by
> the National Information Technologies Center, CNTI of Venezuela.
>
> press at lacnic.net
> Rambla República de México 6125
> Montevideo - Uruguay 11400
> http://lacnic.net/en/sobre-lacnic/newsletter.html
>
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Roque Gagliano
ANTEL - URUGUAY
rgaglian at antel.net.uy

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