Re: [RRG] Charging for updates in BGP

[Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net>]

> I figure charging for each BGP changed advertisement could be done,  
> like this,
> via some technical and commercial arrangements.  However, it would  
> only make a
> marginal impact on the routing scaling problem.  Another arrangement  
> might be to
> have some global registry of ASes and their PI prefixes - where the  
> ASes have
> all agreed to pay some fee per update, to some central fund, and  
> there is some
> technical arrangement to monitor the changes they make, so the  
> payments can be
> seen to be correct.  But how would that work?  Some changes might  
> not be
> detectable except very close to the upstream ISPs of each edge  
> network.


http://www.potaroo.net/drafts/old/draft-bert-kyoto-protocol-00.html

Geoff


:-)


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