Chinese bgp metering story
Dobbins, Roland
rdobbins at arbor.net
Fri Dec 18 19:37:21 UTC 2009
On Dec 19, 2009, at 2:24 AM, Jonny Martin wrote:
> Mixing billing with
> the reachability information signalled through BGP just doesn't seem
> like a good idea.
This is done all the time via combinatorial BGP/NetFlow analysis, for peering/transit analysis reports, offnet/on-net billing differentials, etc.
The merits (or lack thereof) of the 'proposal' in question aside, there's nothing evil or stupid about doing this on one's own network.
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