A Study of 28 Peering Policies
The following are snippets of Peering Policy Clauses found in the Peering Rules of the Road - A Study of 28 Peering Policies study. Clauses were categorized and put into rough categories for comparison.
The following are snippets of Peering Policy Clauses found in the Peering Rules of the Road - A Study of 28 Peering Policies study. Clauses were categorized and put into rough categories for comparison.
Under no circumstances will Speakeasy maintain both a transit and peering relationship with a given network simultaneously. – Speakeasy
1.2.5 Existing IP Transit Customers of AboveNet are not eligible for peering. – AboveNet
The interconnection partner must not currently be or have been an IP transit customer of Internap in the recent past. Under no circumstances shall the interconnection partner be a simultaneous peer and transit customer. tw telecom does not peer with any network that is also a tw telecom transit customer. RCN will not peer with any network that has been an IP transit customer within the past nine (9) months. In order to qualify for settlement-free peering, the interconnecting partner may not have been a WBS Connect IP transit customer in the past six months. This applies to ASN 19080 or any other resold transit purchased from WBS Connect. – wbsconnect
# Potential peers may not have been an Mzima IP transit customer during the previous 12 months. – Mzima
Applicant or Applicants's entities must not have any transit or peering relationship with Tinet or any other Tinet entity or have had such a relationship in the 6 months prior to application. – tinet
# Existing transit customers cannot be peers in the same region. – LambdaNet # Not have been a New Edge Networks IP customer within the past (6) six months. – NewEdge
Potential peer must not be, or have been, an IP customer of Lightpath.net, or any busines grade IP service, within 6 months of requesting a settlement-free peer. –Cablevision
Under no circumstances shall the interconnection partner be a simultaneous peer and transit customer. – WVFiber
Generally, AS19151 does not peer with downstream transit customers of existing peering partners but this may be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. – WVFiber
A network (ASN) that is a customer of an AT&T US network for any dedicated IP services may not simultaneously be a settlement-free peer of that same network. – AT&T
A network (ASN) that is a customer of a Comcast network for any dedicated IP services may not simultaneously be a settlement-free network peer. – Comcast
A network (ASN) that is a BGP transit customer of OpenAccess or a partner network for any dedicated IP services may not simultaneously be a settlement-free peer of that same network. – OpenAccess
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