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Howdy.
We're conducting a statistical overview of peering sessions for a research
paper. The paper we produce will be input into OECD guidelines on national
communications regulatory frameworks, so we'd very much like it to accurately
reflect the diversity of peering agreements out there in the world. At the
same time, if we ask for too much data, people will be reluctant to answer our
questions, so we've tried to keep the data we're collecting as simple as
possible.
Specifically, for each other Autonomous System you peer with, we'd be
interested in knowing the following five pieces of information:
Your ASN
Your peer's ASN
Whether a written and signed peering agreement exists (the alternative
being that it's less formal, like a "handshake agreement")
Whether the terms are roughly symmetric (the alternative being that it
describes an agreement with different terms for each of the two parties, like
one paying the other, or one receiving more or fewer than full customer routes)
If a jurisdiction of governing law is defined
The easiest way for us to take the information is as a tab-text file or
spreadsheet, consisting of rows as follows:
Your ASN: Integer
Peer ASN: Integer
Written agreement: Boolean
Symmetric: Boolean
Governing Law: ISO 3166 two-digit country-code, or empty
For instance:
42 <tab> 715 <tab> false <tab> true <tab> us <cr>
42 <tab> 3856 <tab> true <tab> true <tab> us <cr>
The ASNs are just there so we can avoid double-counting a single pair of peers,
when we hear from both of them. As soon as we've collated the data, we'll
strip the ASNs to protect privacy, and only the final aggregate statistics will
be published in any case. We've currently got about 10,000 sessions
documented, and would love to have as many more as possible. We'd like to
finish collecting data by the end of the second week of April, two weeks from
now.
If you're able to help us, please email me the data in whatever form you can.
If you need a non-disclosure, we're happy to sign one.
Thanks for considering this,
-Bill Woodcock
Research Director
Packet Clearing House
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