This is a rambling list of issues and ideas concerning the establishment of an Auckland neutral facility for exchanging internet traffic. Existing Peering Arrangements NZIX NZIX consists of a pair of cisco catalyst switches and colocation space provided by the University of Waikato.
Participants engage in bilateral arrangements, and there is no imposed exchange-wide peering policy.
Agreements Using bilateral agreements negotiated between exchange participants has far more chance of working than trying to agree exchange-wide policies. The aim should be to reduce the function of the exchange as far as is possible to simply providing infrastructure, and not managing an interconnect service. Route Exchange Routes should be exchanged between participants in whatever manner suits them. IP Addressing Participants require IP addresses for their interfaces which face the exchange. Ideally these should be chosen from a subnet for which no participant provides transit, either explicitly or as part of a shorter-prefix, aggregate route.