Matthew Poole wrote:
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Jonny Martin wrote:
That's assuming of course that it is desirable to _mandate_ that all providers peer. Sounds like a dangerous proposition to me.
Why not mandate that any ISP with more than xx,000 users must peer through the IXs? That's a nice, objective test, and in any case the only ISPs of significance that would be affected by such an instruction are the ones owned by TCL and TCNZ. Everyone else already peers.
Every ISP at Every IX? Does it end at ISPs? What about universities, for instance? What about satellite networks where the uplink isn't necessarily NZ based? Are you going to pay for my long haul circuits to Palmy? Doesn't sound like it would work so well, to me. If we said only the "major" IXs, what happens when the poor guy in Christchurch signs up his XX,000th customer and is forced to peer... but isn't getting access to the Big Boys? Regulated peering sounds very scary to me...