[ixp] others at ixp - failure of ISPs?

[Antonio Godinho]

Hi,

In our IXP in Mozambique we have a policy that any ISP that joins the IXP 
must peer with everyone else and only ISPs are allowed to be at the IXP.

Cheers,

AG

On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 08:49:35 +0800, Mark Tinka wrote
> 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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Antonio Godinho
B.Sc., MCP+I, MCSE, CCNA, CCNP
CIUEM
Maputo
Mozambique


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