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Re: Chinese bgp metering story
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Fri Dec 18 14:39:07 2009
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:37:21 +0000
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On Dec 19, 2009, at 2:24 AM, Jonny Martin wrote:
> Mixing billing with =20
> the reachability information signalled through BGP just doesn't seem =20
> like a good idea.
This is done all the time via combinatorial BGP/NetFlow analysis, for peeri=
ng/transit analysis reports, offnet/on-net billing differentials, etc.
The merits (or lack thereof) of the 'proposal' in question aside, there's n=
othing evil or stupid about doing this on one's own network.
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