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Peering
Peering Request
A Bad Peering Request
Hello kind sir,
It has recently been purchsased to my attention that at this moment in
time both of our companies are present at the LINX in London England and
that we do not at this moment in time have an agreement between our
companies such that we may interchange the traffics of our people and
customers over this LINX in London England but that we exchanges our
traffics in other manors that are detriment to our combined interests.
Please may it be that you are in reply to my email which I write with
great satisfication that we are to be setting the configuration up of
the peerings at LINX in London England.
Please be in reply to this email if you are in agreement.
I am available of the email address peering@internetserviceprovidings.in
Peering Department
Internet Service Providings India
misspellings, poor grammar generally
Missing Information
AS Number?
Traffic Volume?
Peering Requirements (if any?)
Other Peering Locations?
URL to backbone maps, website?
Next Page: Good Peering Requests from OCN
Email Peering Requests are among the easiest e-mails to ignore. Many ISPs pass peering email duties around on a weekly basis, with many engineers viewing this activity as not real engineering. Therefore, emails poorly written, or missing information are much less likely to be successful. It is worth your time to write the peering request carefully and completely.
Specifically, you need to include all relevant information. Failure to include the necessary information will delay or prevent peering from occurring. Including too much information is also a problem as the receiver may see peering as too cumbersome.
A Better Peering Request
This template is based on a sample peering template from Serge Radovcic (Euro-IX):
“I put this together a few years ago. I did this by first looking through several peering coordinators emails that they had passed onto me, and after putting together a first draft I sent it back to three or four coordinators and I ended up with the draft I sent you.
My original idea was based on a conversation that we had a few years ago where we would ask some peering coordinators from different countries to translate this letter and we would then automate the languages to what the
requester and requestee needed.”
You click on the green fields and edit the information, and click on the “send peering request” link, and your mailer opens up like this:
The page below is an active peering template to start with:
iPhone users can click on the iPhone icon for a custom styled version.