Hi all, I have a question for you all that has come up for me after spending most of my recent time up here in good old Iceland. The company I work for are connected to both LINX and AMSIX, and as some of you may know both of these exchanges have mailing lists that are used for such things as.. well, asking everybody else if they would like to peer. As part of the process of a new member coming onto the exchange, it is sent to the mailing list and all existing members can say 'yes, that organisation is perfectly fine to come on board, and yes, we will peer with them'.. or something along those lines (they might say, yes we don't mind them connecting but we won't peer with them). Where would be an appropriate place here in NZ to broadcast a desire to peer with anyone present at WIX and APE? How many organisations 'trust' the route servers? Is there a significant amount of missed peering traffic because some organisations have an open peering policy, but don't trust the route servers, and don't know where to broadcast a 'we would like to peer' message? The large carriers aside, are entities on WIX, APE, etc, missing out on some free peering simply because they don't know who else has an open peering policy? I notice that up here on AMSIX and LINX, it's very no nonsense and organisations often have a 'peering(a)xyz.com' mailbox, and anyone who is a member of the exchange can feel free to send mail to it (or just to the mailing list as happens reasonably frequently). In fact, it is built into the rules (at least on LINX), that you must monitor the mailbox and must respond within some time limit. Perhaps we don't need anything so formal, but maybe a peering mailing list for our IXs would be a good start. Or should we just use NZNOG? Regards, Anton