Lessons from the AU model

Andy Davidson andy at nosignal.org
Mon Jan 21 01:11:38 UTC 2008



On 21 Jan 2008, at 00:16, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:

> Andy Davidson wrote:
>> - Am I peering widely enough ?  Should I actually be stuffing a  
>> switch under the floor in my employer's suite and letting my  
>> buddies plug in ?  Peeringdb knows about eight exchanges in a  
>> developed economy of 20 million people.  We have more than eight in  
>> single cities of Europe.
> Peering in Oz is MPLA.   This leads to no one worrying about having  
> to be found to form peering relationships, so peeringdb is  
> incomplete at best.  I've tried to encourage people to add their  
> data in.

Is it always compulsory ?  (I just did some legwork and read the WAIX  
policies, and it seems to be mandatory here)   This surprises me,  
Multi-lateral peering is great for lots of networks, but really bad  
for others, and (if forced) probably acts as a barrier to the bigger  
networks from taking part in any public peering ....

> 1/3 from (expensive) transit to the "Gang of Four) who won't peer

.... and acts as an incentive to pull out of the agreement as networks  
grow .. think about what happens when your customers' routes start  
appearing through your MLP session as well.

I can think of some MLP-only exchanges in Europe, but I can't think of  
any that do significant traffic.

Andy



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