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
