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

[Mark Smith]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Luke Iggleden <luke+ausnog at sisgroup.com.au>
> To: Brad Gould <bradley at internode.com.au>
> Cc: "ausnog at ausnog.net" <ausnog at ausnog.net>
> Sent: Friday, 9 November 2012 10:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Domestic Peering WAS: Vocus peering traffic missingfrom PIPE-IX?
> 
> 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.
> 

"As long as we can meet them at suitable aggregation points content be exchanged for free  
domestically." 

http://lists.ausnog.net/pipermail/ausnog/2012-November/015231.html



> 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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