How to Peer Peering Agreement Technical Requirements
Multi-Lateral Peering Agreement:
Internet Service Providers wishing to participate in peering with the Louisville NAP must agree to abide by the terms of this Multi-Lateral Peering Agreement.
The Multi-Lateral Peering Agreement
In order to improve the efficiency, performance, and consistency of Internet service in the Louisville, KY, area and of the Internet generally, the following is agreed to:
All NAP peering participants agree to advertise all customers' routes to the NAP's route arbitrator for all BGP-4 IP address ranges handled under each participant's ASN.
BGP-4 routes will not be advertised for IP address ranges that have not been assigned to the advertising ISP from the appropriate authority: ARIN, InterNIC, or IANA (Internet Assigned Number Authority).
ISP's agree to accept BGP-4 route broadcasts from the Louisville NAP's route arbitrator.
ISP's agree to exchange and accept traffic to and from all other NAP peers as advertised by the NAP's route arbitrator.
ISP's are not obligated to transit traffic for any other NAP peer, that is, ISP are not obligated or expected to pass traffic onto backbone connections or other ASN's not belonging to a customers.
All agree that traffic shall not be filtered or tampered with nor shall it be examined for content by the NAP or anyone peering at the NAP.
The NAP shall be treated as a common carrier point.
No monetary settlements are required by this agreement.
For more information on connecting to the Louisville-NAP ™ contact
Glenn Fish at 502-589-6800 ext. 19
or e-mail at: info@louisville-nap.net