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

[Chris Ricks]

Late last year, I wrote to representatives from three political parties,
the ACCC and NBN Co on the issue of this braindead GoF arrangement.

I received the following responses:

  * From Mr Conroy: Nothing
  * From Mr Turnbull: I was subscribed to his mailing list
  * From various people from The Greens: Thanks - we'll look into it!
  * From the ACCC: Nothing
  * From NBN Co: The ACCC looked at it again around 2007 and found no
    need to review the arrangement

The fact that Conroy has made zero statements on the agreement whilst
making ignorant statements about additional submarine cable capacity
being something he'd consider the government getting involved in shows
that a complete examination of current market issues is simply not being
addressed by the people who should be doing so.

- Chris

On 09/11/12 10:34, Luke Iggleden wrote:
> 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.
>
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