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

[Luke Iggleden]

On 9/11/12 10:23 AM, Brad Gould wrote:
> Just because no money changes hands, does not mean its free.
>
> Port costs.  Interconnect costs.  Network complexity costs.  Monitoring costs.
>
> How much does establishing a PoP in another DC to pick up peering cost?
>
> Sure, you can soak most of that into your normal ongoings and operations, but its there.
>
> Brad

Even the beer to get the handshake costs money too.  Nobody is arguing 
the fact that there is a cost to peer.

A gig-e of domestic peering, bi-lateral or multilateral, when you're 
only paying for port costs, noc etc (+beer), IS currently cheaper and 
will be for a long time to come with the current Go4 arrangements.

Seems the majority of the responses are happy to just accept the status 
quo here, even though the rest of the world does not do this?

The ACCC mandated the legislation? The ACCC can change it? Finding a 
metric that everyone agrees on seems difficult though due to the incumbents.

Personally, I like handshakes.