On Dec 19, 2009, at 2:26 AM, Deepak Jain wrote:
"A proposal has been made, and is being studied, to use BGP routers to collect traffic flow data, which could be used, by bilateral agreement, by operators for billing purposes."
Lots of 'BGP routers' are used to collect traffic flow data (NetFlow, cflowd, S/flow, NetStream, IPFIX, et. al.) to do this, ever single second of every single day, all around the world - including in China. It sounds as if the erstwhile proponents of this plan need to catch up to 1997 in terms of their operational clue. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. -- H.L. Mencken