[176700] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Charging fee for BGP prefix per /24?!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tore Anderson)
Wed Dec 10 03:20:56 2014
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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 09:20:45 +0100
From: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
To: Yucong Sun <sunyucong@gmail.com>
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* Yucong Sun
> My recent inquiry to some network provider reveals that they are
> charging fee for per /24 announced. Obvious that would means they get
> to charge a lot with little to none efforts on their side.
>
> In a world we are charging total bytes transferred instead of bps on
> uplinks, i can't say I'm surprised that much. But does anyone else had
> same experience? Did you pay? Is this the new status quo now?
Haven't encountered this myself, but putting a price on DFZ routing
slots seems like a Good Thing to me.
Tore
