Re: Chinese bgp metering story

["Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net>]

On Dec 19, 2009, at 1:47 AM, Fred Baker wrote:

> But what is all this about "is the ITU interested in changing BGP"? If the word "metering" makes any sense in 
> context, BGP doesn't meter anything.

Neither the reporter nor the Chinese proponents nor the ITU seem to understand that making use of combined flow 
telemetry/BGP analytics for traffic engineering, capacity planning, and billing applications has been a common practice 
for the last 13 or so years.

This seems to pretty much be a non-story, except for the nationalization aspect of it.  I concur with Nick's hypothesis 
that the actual end-goal may be to 'harmonize' trans-national peering agreements/transit fees, and then tax them 
(probably regressively in terms of transnational traffic) - with a sidecar of surveillance for good measure.

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