bandwidth regulation for IP transit within public IXP peering networks (BGP environment)

When peering with several AS at a public IXP the main goal is to route each other’s prefixes along the IXP’s switching architecture. Nevertheless sometimes a peering partner wants another peering partner to work as upstream and provide him a full table. In this case the traffic flowing as „transit traffic“ should somehow be accounted or monitored. In order to provide such functionality we invented something…