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Peering Policy

 

GLPR seeks to interconnect its IP network with other Internet providers on a settlement-free basis when such interconnection are of mutual benefit to both parties.

GLPR does not require formal contracts for peering arrangements, but the following guidelines apply.

 

General Guidelines

 

  • All peers must supply an operational contact that is available on a 24x7 basis such as a Network Operations Center or equivalent. Both voice and e-mail contact information is required.

  • Peers should provide a looking glass and/or traceroute server at each interconnection point to assist in troubleshooting.

  • Peer must agree to actively cooperate to resolve security incidents, denial of service attacks, and other operational problems.

  • A good faith effort should be made to communicate information regarding network maintenance that will affect traffic exchange.

 

Technical and Routing Requirements

  • Peers must not utilize any form of gateway of last resort or default route that is directed at GLPR.

  • Neither party shall modify, sell or provide the next-hop to a third party.

  • All announcements are to be consistent, in terms of prefix aggregation properties, across all interconnect locations.

  • Peers are expected to filter their clients to reject both unauthorized BGP announcements, aggregate prefixes announced as well as filter their prefixes to deny IP datagrams with invalid source addresses.

  • Use of the Internet Routing Registry is encouraged. GLPR reserves the right to make entries into the IRR on behalf of the peer if needed.

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Suspension and Termination

 

  • GLPR reserves the right to suspend peering for an indefinite period of time should any form of network abuse be verified to take place via the peering interconnect.

  • Recurring incidents of network abuse and/or slow responses on curing an incident will result in termination of the peering relationship.

  • GLPR reserves the right to terminate the peering relation for any reason with 30 days notice.

 

The definition of network abuse includes but is not limited to:

 

  • Denial of Service attacks

  • Unsolicited Bulk Email sources

  • Setting default-route to GLPR

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