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.

Provide-Tools Peering Policy Clause

Peers should provide access to a looking glass or traceroute server to facilitate troubleshooting. – Speakeasy

The two Internet Networks must exchange with each other prior to any settlement-free interconnection agreement a free shell or PPP account for testing and auditing purposes related to routing. This will be used for confirmation of traffic flows, troubleshooting of interconnection-related issues, and auditing purposes. – Verizon

Both parties shall provide access to a route server, looking glass, or similar service for the purposes of routing audits, diagnostics, and troubleshooting. – nLayer

All peers are requested to enable LSRR on router interfaces facing RCN peering sessions to facilitate network diagnostics at least during session activation. -- RCN

Peers should provide a looking glass and/or traceroute server at each interconnection point to assist in troubleshooting. – OpenAccess

Interconnection Candidate must maintain a publicly accessible looking glass server with BGP views and traceroute capabilities from 5 cities spread across 3 U.S. time zones. – Qwest

Both parties shall provide access to a route server, looking glass, or similar service for the purposes of routing audits, diagnostics, and troubleshooting. – WVFiber



About the Author

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Mr Norton is Founder of DrPeering, an Internet Peering portal and consultancy, with over twenty years of Internet experience.

From 1998-2008, Mr. Norton’s title was Co-Founder and Chief Technical Liaison for Equinix. From the beginning, Mr. Norton focused on building a critical mass of carriers, ISPs and Content Providers. To this end, he created the white paper process, identifying interesting and important Internet peering operations topics, and documenting what he learned from the peering folks. He published and presented his research white papers in a variety of international operations and research forums. These activities helped establish the relationships necessary to atract the set of Tier 1 ISPs, Tier 2 ISPs, Cable Companies, and Content Providers necessary for a healthy Internet Exchange Point ecosystem.

 

 

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