[176711] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Charging fee for BGP prefix per /24?!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ammar Zuberi)
Wed Dec 10 11:40:02 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Ammar Zuberi <ammar@fastreturn.net>
In-Reply-To: <20141210163338.14497.qmail@ary.lan>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 20:39:48 +0400
To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>, "tore@fud.no" <tore@fud.no>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
I was once with a provider that charged something stupid like $500 per BGP s=
ession.
This really isn't that big of a surprise.
On 10 Dec 2014, at 8:33 pm, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
>> Haven't encountered this myself, but putting a price on DFZ routing
>> slots seems like a Good Thing to me.
>=20
> Paid to whom?
>=20
> Yes, it would be nice to put more backpressure on announcements to get
> the size of the DFZ down. But unless you can figure out how to get
> the money from the people announcing the routes to the people actually
> running the backbone routers, fees are just a way for providers to
> extract more money from their customers.
>=20
> R's,
> John
