[governance] Africa to launch own Internet exchange point

[McTim]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 3:22 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>wrote:

>
> Dear Alejandro,
>
> Thanks for your response.
>
> No, I have not been talking to the ISPs in India, and do not understand
> the situation really well. However I have heard remarks that, even after
> many years of setting up of India's national Internet exchange NIXI, a very
> larger part of the domestic traffic still gets routed from outside back to
> India.
>


Some of that maybe due to Traffic engineering.  If it is cheaper to send
traffic to AMS-IX or LINX than NIXI, folk will do that, even though it
means that traffic goes to the EU and comes back.


>
> It appears to me that compulsory exchange of traffic, on open peering
> basis, with zero settlement charges, would be good for an open and
> competitive Internet ecology.
>


Except that of course you have just turned paying customers into peers,
dramatically reducing revenue and doing nearly as much damage to the
Internet charging system as "sending party network pays" would.




> I read that NIXI in India has some settlement arrangement based on
> requester pays.
>


This would be very surprising indeed.  Do you have a link?


<snip>



> I do think that  some amount of public interest regulation is required at
> the transport layer of the Internet to keep the Internet as a really open
> system
>


read the article Alx just sent you.  I think you will change your mind.



-- 
Cheers,

McTim
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indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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