AS1741 peering policy

Juha.Oinonen@csc.fi 20040406, 20040415, 20040506, 20040507, 20040512

General

AS1741(Funet) is maintained by CSC-Scientific Computing Ltd, a not-for-profit company owned by Finnish Ministry of Education. Funet is the Finnish University and Research Network, a service provided by CSC for the Finnish research and academic community (customer organizations).

International IP transit for Funet is provided by and via Nordunet (AS2603), operated by Nordunet A/S. Nordunet's connection policy defines the guidelines which are similar to those of this document.

Peering policy for AS1741

The peering policy of AS1741 is to peer with other networks whenever it is of interest for Funet customer organizations and CSC. The purpose of peering is to improve connectivity as well as to optimize the use of common infrastructures.

Peering is based on an agreement between CSC and the other network.

To make these rules more concrete, the following guidelines will be followed:

AS1741 establishes new peerings only in public peering points (IX) in Finland
AS1741 decides case-by-case in which Finnish peering points it is present (in 2004 this means Ficix1 and Ficix2)
AS1741 decides case-by-case whether to peer with a network in an IX, and the decision is re-evaluated as needed.

Technical implementation

The following principles are followed in peering:

For peers, AS1741 announces AS-FUNET, which includes Funet customers. We do not accept these prefixes or parts of them to be announced to us by any peering partners.
In peerings, database-based (RIPE DB) automatic AS-path filter generation system is used. Thus the peering partners are assumed to keep their database entries up-to-date.
Prefixes announced to us are sanity-checked, and violation prefixes will be removed. In case of severe malfunctions, individual peerings may be shut down temporarily.
Standard security mechanisms like MD5 are implemented.