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RE: Chinese bgp metering story
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Fri Dec 18 14:28:18 2009
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>, Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:26:02 -0500
In-Reply-To: <467CC052-0B84-4C76-AF91-57A934EB50D3@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
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>From the BBC article quoted in the isoc-ny.org link:
An ITU spokesman said: "The ITU has no plans to modify the BGP protocol, wh=
ich is not an ITU-T standard.
"A proposal has been made, and is being studied, to use BGP routers to coll=
ect traffic flow data, which could be used, by bilateral agreement, by oper=
ators for billing purposes."
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I read this to mean, no news here. If you want to move traffic, you need a =
bilateral agreement.=20
That already exists. Where/if money flows, we know circuits don't build the=
mselves for free, so the question of using money isn't a question. The only=
question is whether you are adjusting based on usage, or ports, or total s=
peed, or direction of bits.=20
ITU is already acknowledging that BGP isn't its baby, so it has nothing to =
say there.=20
Deepak
