On Sat, 22 Apr 1995, Randy Bush wrote:

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Not for me, I've done my homework. Unfortunately, I no longer have many of the "texbooks" nor a coherent record of all my sources of info so if I wanted to train another person it would be like reinventing the wheel. :-(

Well then. Money meet mouth, mouth money. Jeez!

Look Randy, this thread started out with people from Sprint and ANS? talking about the efforts involved in getting new operations people on stream and pointing out that they simply couldn't provide any training for their new ISP customers.

What I'm trying to point out is that there is more than one way to skin a cat, i.e. writing a tutorial for the WWW is a far more cost effective training tool than trying to do one-on-one with each new ISP that signs on. My perspective is that of someone who has just climbed most of the steepest part of the learning curve and who has noticed that many of my peers (new ISP's) haven't got a clue and don't know where to find the info.

I point them at http://www.isoc.org, http://www.merit.edu, http://www.ripe.net and http://www.internic.net but they still have to go rooting around in there looking for the key items in a mass of information that is of lesser utility. There is no map! The source documents are nice to have, but without a map you don't even know if you are looking at the right ones!

OK folks, I'll step to the plate (sorta :) I'll host the site on my website (v-site.net) and act as the co-ordinator, evaluator, since I haven't climbed completely out of the learning curve I should be a good evaluator :) Currently I'm reading this book called "Routing on the Internet" by Christian Huitema, it's not bad and will explain Interior Routing Protocols pretty well, it even has a chapter on "policy based routing" but obviously it is incomplete, still It's a start. If you send me URL's and other bit's of advice, I'll try to organize it into a coherent browseable mass. geoffw