[AusNOG] Domestic Peering WAS: Vocus peering traffic missingfrom PIPE-IX?

Luke Iggleden luke+ausnog at sisgroup.com.au
Fri Nov 9 10:09:38 EST 2012


On 9/11/12 9:45 AM, Bill Woodcock wrote:
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> On Nov 8, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Mark Smith <markzzzsmith at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
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>> The assertion was peering is free / gratis / no money. That's clearly incorrect, and I don't think you need much more than a simplification to realise it.
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> However, it's a reasonable generalization, since it holds true 99.75% of the time.
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> http://www.pch.net/resources/papers//peering-survey/PCH-Peering-Survey-2011.pdf
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> You really want to argue over a 0.25% corner case?
>
>                                  -Bill


Great data, thanks Bill!

In particular, it's very interesting to see that 99.51% of the peering 
relationships were set-up by handshake agreements.

I wonder how many of the formalized agreements were in fact the paid 
asymmetric agreements?





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