On Dec 19, 2009, at 2:26 AM, Deepak Jain wrote: > "A proposal has been made, and is being studied, to use BGP routers to > collect traffic flow data, which could be used, by bilateral agreement, by > operators for billing purposes."
Lots of 'BGP routers' are used to collect traffic flow data (NetFlow, cflowd, S/flow, NetStream, IPFIX, et. al.) to do this, ever single second of every single day, all around the world - including in China. It sounds as if the erstwhile proponents of this plan need to catch up to 1997 in terms of their operational clue. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobb...@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. -- H.L. Mencken
