On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Lamar Owen wrote:
On Friday 12 September 2008 04:29:13 marcus.sachs@verizon.com wrote:
For your reading enjoyments, their peering guidelines verbiage is at http://www.pacificinternetexchange.net/?page=peering and their transit SLA is at http://www.pacificinternetexchange.net/?page=sla
They don't seen to have ANY other clients than Intercage. Seems like the same operation to me. No?
The differences in the termination clauses of the two agreements make interesting reading. If a bit dull.
In summary, for this specific network exchange's situations only: 1.) Peers may be terminated for a number of reasons (or for no reason at all, with 30 days notice). There is of course the normal 'no transit through our network' verbiage, and a temporary instant disconnect clause for serious problems (clauses 5.2 and 5.3). Patrick's favorite clause will likely be 5.5, where PIE reserves the right to refuse interconnection with or without any reason. I find it most interesting that they feel the need to enumerate an obvious right of a provider not normally worth mentioning.
2.) Customers have more rights than peers (obviously; consideration is changing hands). One relevant section is IV(C) of their SLA. They at least say the tough line against spam, and a depeering notice from one of their peers carries great weight (as it should, of course). But, in section IV(I) PIE makes a connection guarantee. That is their right to do, obviously, but gives the customer the right to the connection as long as the customer plays by the rules. No arbitrary disconnect ability there, for transit customers at least. The agreement even warrants that PIE has the authority to grant the rights under that agreement. Interesting wording.
So if you want to be able to shut down a BGP session at a whim, you'd best make sure your agreement you executed allows for that; or exercise your right as a provider to refuse the customer, one or the other.
It will be interesting to see how long this link stays active. And how long it takes for Intercage to find another upstream. Money talks.