Re: Charging fee for BGP prefix per /24?!

[Tore Anderson <tore () fud no>]

* Yucong Sun

> My recent inquiry to some network provider reveals that they are
> charging fee for per /24 announced. Obvious that would means they get
> to charge a lot with little to none efforts on their side.
>
> In a world we are charging total bytes transferred instead of bps on
> uplinks, i can't say I'm surprised that much. But does anyone else had
> same experience? Did you pay? Is this the new status quo now?

Haven't encountered this myself, but putting a price on DFZ routing
slots seems like a Good Thing to me.

Tore