French Regulator to ask all your information about your Peering

Fri Mar 30 20:38:37 UTC 2012

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell at ufp.org> wrote:

> In a message written on Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 07:50:43PM +0100, Mike
> Blanche wrote:
> > http://www.arcep.fr/index.php?id=9320
> >
> > That's quite a big list. :-( (assuming I understand that list to be
> > everyone licenced under L33-1)
>
> Can someone with more local knowledge explain a "L33" license?
>
In France, L33 is the license for companies that operate public networks
and provide public electronic communications services,
here is a translation (if you dare) :
http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?act=url&hl=fr&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.fr&sl=fr&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do%3FidArticle%3DLEGIARTI000024506015%26cidTexte%3DLEGITEXT000006070987%26categorieLien%3Did%26dateTexte%3D20120330&usg=ALkJrhj-oUuDkvh8f068LcNFYXc0ceE-RQ

Looking at the names and some quick googling make me think this is
> like a CLEC license in the US.  If so, aren't they missing a
> fair number of the folks who might be present at an exchange but not
> have such a license?
>
all companies that operate their network for their own use,
but ARCEP will know most of the major peering relationships.
Let's hope it will help peering.... :/