Well, speaking as one who wrote an ISP-specific, although not NOC-specific book about a decade ago, it doesn't seem as if there is a commercial motivation to update them. For the record, it's _Building Service Provider Networks_ (Wiley, 2001), and I'm proud of it. Nevertheless, I'm not opposed to trying to create updated open-source guidance. I do a good deal of work with http://en.citizendium.org, a real-name Wiki that is trying to reach critical mass. Anybody interested in collaborating? I'd actually started more on RPSL and peering than first-tier ops, but hadn't done anything more for lack of activity there. Certainly, I could port some of my NANOG tutorials, not that I have the PPT for many but just the PDF.
-----Original Message----- From: Robert E. Seastrom [mailto:rs@seastrom.com] Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 8:09 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Books for the NOC guys...
This morning I went digging for a book to recommend that someone in our NOC read in order to understand at a high level how Internet infrastructure works (bgp, igps, etc) and discovered that the old standbys (Huitema, Halabi, Perlman) have all not been updated in a decade or so.
On the one hand, they're all still quite relevant since there hasn't been anything really earth-shattering in that department, but they are all going to be lean to nonexistent on stuff like IPv6 and NLRI negotiation.
So, what are you having your up-and-coming NOC staff read?
Thanks,
-r