[64032] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ix's & prefix registration
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Tue Oct 14 14:50:39 2003
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: "Niels Bakker" <niels=nanog@bakker.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 02:49:37 +0800
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net> writes:
> AMS-IX does not, nor does it require its members to peer with anybody
> (including the exchange-supporting network infrastructure). AMS-IX
> believes that the decision to peer is up to the individual members.
NIXI (http://www.nixi.org) - the national internet exchange of india - seems to enforce a mandatory multilateral peering policy (though their policy, and their setup, sure sounds like a godawful mess, right about now) :(
Quoting from their membership agreement (a word doc at http://www.nixi.org/NIXI%20T&C_%20ver_%202.doc) -
> Peering Policy of NIXI
>
> NIXI has adopted a Multilateral peering policy . Member ISPs shall
> not refuse to accept traffic from other members.
--srs
