[as112-ops] AS112 peering coordination?

[Aleksi Suhonen]

Hi,

Currently the general AS112 peering policy is very open, although only 
nodes that are hosted at IXPs are easily available for direct peering.
(Right?)

This is alright for peers that only have interconnections in a couple of 
cities. But for ISPs that have interconnections on multiple continents: 
I feel it could use better coordination.

A "backbone operator" will be receiving the AS112 prefixes with 
different AS path lengths and other attributes in different places. They 
will also probably be receiving it from a mix of customers and peers.

Here's one example view:         http://bgp.he.net/AS112

I think ISPs should forward this traffic to the closest node regardless 
of AS path length and other attributes. Since that is technically not 
feasible to guarantee right now, maybe we should try to coordinate 
peering with "the top peerers," so that they can receive similar 
announcements on every continent?

Is this something we want to do?

Yours,

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