[AusNOG] PCH survey on peering

[Damien Morris]

On 5/05/11 12:56 PM, "Matthew Moyle-Croft" <mmc at internode.com.au> wrote:

>>Interesting stuff.. Eg:
>> 
>>> Of the total analyzed agreements, 698 (0.49%) were formalized in
>>> written contracts. The remaining
>>> 141,512 (99.51%) were ³handshake² agreements
>> 
>> 
>> I've been asked about this before as senior management types don't like
>> "handshake" deals, but my belief that it's a near-100% reality looks
>> correct.
>> 
>
>
>Yep.   The ones where contracts exist tend to be where there is some kind
>of infrastructure involved (PNIs etc) or where alternate connectivity is
>expensive or impractical (or uneconomic to provide).
>

This gets raised in Golding's 2003 presentation as well: "FDDI and ATM
peering are deprecated. ATM peering has been proven to be economically
unfeasible."

I'm amazed that peering was done over ATM..

Cheers,
Damien.