Re: Charging fee for BGP prefix per /24?!

[Ammar Zuberi <ammar () fastreturn net>]

I was once with a provider that charged something stupid like $500 per BGP session.

This really isn't that big of a surprise.

On 10 Dec 2014, at 8:33 pm, John Levine <johnl () iecc com> wrote:

> > Haven't encountered this myself, but putting a price on DFZ routing
> > slots seems like a Good Thing to me.
>
> Paid to whom?
>
> Yes, it would be nice to put more backpressure on announcements to get
> the size of the DFZ down.  But unless you can figure out how to get
> the money from the people announcing the routes to the people actually
> running the backbone routers, fees are just a way for providers to
> extract more money from their customers.
>
> R's,
> John