[ixp] others at ixp - failure of ISPs?

[Mark Tinka]

On Monday 01 June 2009 07:57:00 pm Frank Habicht wrote:

> However,
> don't you think (like myself) that whenever an
> organisation of that kind (I mean non-ISP, non IP content
> company / hoster) connects that is or was an opportunity
> that the ISPs should have sold to them as a service.

Just because an exchange point has an open peering policy, 
does not mean that members are mandated to peer with 
everyone across it.

Now, whether refusing to peer with a member is a good or bad 
thing, is left as an exercise to the reader. However, in our 
experience peering at various exchange points run in 
different ways, it is not uncommon for this to be the case.

In fact, we have seen cases where networks will peer with 
non-ISP's, but only provide a subset of their NLRI.

Cheers,

Mark.
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