I was wondering if someone who knew something about the current status of the group(s) that were working on a standard data collection format for exchange point statistics, could speak up. It seems to me that operators could still get valuable trend information out of published data from exchange points. However this data would be more useful if compared accross multiple exchange point, as there are at least 40 in north america alone. (Although most of those are smaller exchange points.) (Then if we could just get providers to publish info on private exchange points...)
This is slight tangent to above but please allow me, Is there any proposed "standard" using which data could be *collected* from different vendor routers, something similar to Cisco's netflow? Does anybody know if other vendors support things similar to Cisco's netflow for stat collection? /Subodh Nijsure (subodh@best.com)