Re: Can an IXP sell IP transit?

[William Herrin <bill () herrin us>]

On Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 8:44 AM Douglas Fischer <fischerdouglas () gmail com> wrote:
> But I have seen a reasonably large scenario in which the IXP operator,
> maintaining the MLPA LAN with the pair of Route-Servers, adds
> another participant with the SAME ASN as the route-servers,
> and through this participant starts to sell traffic.

Of course they can sell transit. The reason they don't is that it has
the potential to create a conflict of interest. When your customer is
also a competitor and your customer suffers an outage that's your
fault... Well, you see where this is going.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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