At 11:18 p.m. 27/02/2017, Dylan Hall wrote:

Disclaimer: I worked for CityLink a while back so feel free to consider the following biased or well informed as you see fit :)

I think one aspect of this discussion that is often overlooked is who participates in the peering exchanges. It's not just a handful of large ISP's and content providers.

Take a look at:

http://nzix.net/ape-peers.htmlhttp://nzix.net/ape-peers.html http://nzix.net/wix-peers.html

We have a huge range of participants: universities, schools, government, data centres, finance, researchers, broadcasters, etc. Very few of these organisations operate networks as their core business.

If it's so important to convince them all to opt-in to the change what are we doing to explain why they should make that change? Pointing at an RFC and yelling loudly hardly seems likely to be accepted as a convincing argument outside of the networking community.

Similar Disclaimer: I worked for CityLink a while back so feel free to consider the following biased or well informed as you see fit :) The original name WIX was "Wellington Information Exchange" back in 1996 to 1998. In 1997 (roughly) there was trial work done with Fore ATM switches because there was significant interest in " video" peering and "E1-peering", between Govt agencies. Of course VoIP-peering does a better job but has made less progress. WIX may lack the traffic volumes and number of carriers/ISPs but WIX is a more interesting exchange in terms of economic development in a community. Of course it does by-pass "service providers" in doing a lot of that. Some of the applications that (in theory) run include page ads for newspapers where the bank can update the interest rate in the ad for each edition of a newspaper. The ads used to cross town via cycle courier. WIX enabled that to be via FTP, without traffic charges. ( and couriers). So many of the WIX peers were on private AS numbers and often had someone else manage a simple peering router. This B2B peering is why there was a focus on having as many regional IXs as possible.