Hi all, Well, it's been a while, and there hasn't been much comment on this. Here we go, then: a proposal. Feel free to shoot me down in flames if this doesn't sit happily with anybody else :) 1. Establish a second emulated LAN on CityLink for BGP peering between cooperating network operators. This will consist of a series of bilateral agreements between individual network operators. No customers should connect to ISPs over this network - this will be a "clean" IP-only network. 2. To make (1) as smooth as possible, individual operators should make efforts to install up-to-date route entries and associated policy into the Merit (Route Arbiter) routing registry. This will also help with a similar operation on NZIX. 3. The Wellington peering network will be called "WIX". ISOCNZ have reserved wix.net.nz for this purpose. NetLink have offered to keep the zone fed and watered; any operator should be able to perform zone transfers for wix.net.nz and NS records for that operators nameserver will be added by rough concensus (i.e. as long as the nameserver in question seems to be up most of the time :) 4. A class C network will be obtained from ISI by ISOCNZ. This costs US$500. ISOCNZ will bill a proportion of this amount to all the initial participants in WIX. The corresponding in-addr.arpa zone will be run by NetLink on behalf of the peering community, in much the same way as wix.net.nz. 5. Nobody is obliged to advertise the peering subnet to any other network, although I would have thought it would be handy to keep in interior routing tables. Anybody who feels the need to provide international transit for it, however, is free to do so :) 6. Steps 1-5 to be carried out by yesterday, if not sooner. Comments? Joe On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Andy Linton wrote:
Joe Abley wrote:
Hi again,
ISI are prepared to allocate us an unencumbered class C network for WIX, which should be sufficient for ISP-peering-over-CNH purposes.
There are some costs involved (below). Basically the options are:
1. ISI perform allocation of IP addresses to individual ISPs, maintain contact information, etc, etc. This costs US$1200 per year (details below).
2. ISI delegate the address block and let us sort that kind of thing out amongst ourselves. That costs US$500 per year.
What do people think?
Can we get ISOCNZ to hold the 'registration' for the numbers and get them to bill us if necessary. I'm happy to put in $US100 for this, can we have a commitment from at least Clear, ICONZ, Saturn and Actrix and anyone else who wants to party?
I'm still happy to provide the reverse DNS as previously offered.
andy -- Mailto:Andy.Linton(a)netlink.co.nz Tel: +64 4 916 5312 Post: Netlink, PO Box 5358, Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand PGP public key: http://www.pgp.com/keyserver/pks-lookup.cgi
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Joe Abley