On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 19:00 +1200, Nathan Ward wrote:
On 16/09/2008, at 6:48 PM, James Spenceley wrote:
On 16/09/2008, at 4:39 PM, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:
There's a list which could easily be counted with grep and wc:
I counted (albeit with eyes and brain) and it worked out ~60, which seemed lower than I'd heard mentioned, so you may well be right on the private peering.
I don't think many people do exclusively private peering across APE. Pretty much everyone who connects there peers with the route servers. Any private peering is generally an optimisation (remove an AS from paths) or to get some flavour of transit.
I'm certainly not aware of anyone other than TelstraClear/Telecom that would be likely to connect but not peer with the RSes. Note that i'm not saying that they do connect - I'm saying that I'm not aware of anyone else who has a private-peering-only policy.
Of course, number of /32 equivalents announced on the APE is probably a more useful metric than just "number of participants". Then again, I don't know what you want the data for, so maybe not. -jasper