[120395] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Chinese bgp metering story
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Fri Dec 18 14:51:59 2009
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:50:50 +0000
In-Reply-To: <3B15EFF7-795B-4FF9-9D43-8F522F66E6C0@cisco.com>
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On Dec 19, 2009, at 1:47 AM, Fred Baker wrote:
> But what is all this about "is the ITU interested in changing BGP"? If th=
e word "metering" makes any sense in context, BGP doesn't meter anything.
Neither the reporter nor the Chinese proponents nor the ITU seem to underst=
and that making use of combined flow telemetry/BGP analytics for traffic en=
gineering, capacity planning, and billing applications has been a common pr=
actice for the last 13 or so years.
This seems to pretty much be a non-story, except for the nationalization as=
pect of it. I concur with Nick's hypothesis that the actual end-goal may b=
e to 'harmonize' trans-national peering agreements/transit fees, and then t=
ax them (probably regressively in terms of transnational traffic) - with a =
sidecar of surveillance for good measure.
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