[120393] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Chinese bgp metering story
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Fri Dec 18 14:41:11 2009
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:39:01 +0000
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On Dec 19, 2009, at 2:26 AM, Deepak Jain wrote:
> "A proposal has been made, and is being studied, to use BGP routers to co=
llect traffic flow data, which could be used, by bilateral agreement, by op=
erators for billing purposes."
Lots of 'BGP routers' are used to collect traffic flow data (NetFlow, cflow=
d, S/flow, NetStream, IPFIX, et. al.) to do this, ever single second of eve=
ry single day, all around the world - including in China.
It sounds as if the erstwhile proponents of this plan need to catch up to 1=
997 in terms of their operational clue.
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