On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 03:13:09PM +1200, Donald Neal said:
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 13:46, Don Gould wrote:
Perhaps a better question is "When are the IXs going to establish clear policies on this issue?"
Russell.
Perhaps they already have a clear (no pun intended) policy - they're not responsible for what routes you advertise.
As I've explained to anybody who's asked over the last 5+ years, you should only announce routes for which you're happy to carry that traffic free to it's destination. Were somebody to complain that another exchange participant were filching traffic off them, then I'd definitely investigate, and crack heads accordingly. The L2-switched-ethernet nature of the exchanges means that we've no obvious way of spotting abuse happening (a design goal that I doubt many exchange participants would want to change) - we're pretty reliant on people grizzling. The T's and C's could probably stand a revisit, but since I've never received such a complaint, it hasn't seemed like it's worthwhile codifying - this is a community, and I don't want to get prescriptive on what people can and can't do. I'd suggest that in the case of Telecom, exchange participants were just following the routes Telecom advertised - I don't think that anyone, Telecom included, is suggesting that folks were somehow bending the Telecom WIX connection to coerce free transit out of it. Cheers si