[PDB-tech] [Peering-list] Re: proposed new attribute: max_allowed_peering_next_hop_latency

[Bill Woodcock]

> On Apr 20, 2016, at 10:32 AM, Florian Hibler <fhibler at peeringdb.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey tech,
> 
> +1 here. I pretty much like that idea. Instead of the latency it's
> maybe enough to use a tick-box which says "remote-peer”?


That encourages lawyering over what constitutes “remoteness.”  I’m with Arnold, a simple RTT integer would be great.


> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Arnold Nipper <arnold.nipper at de-cix.net> wrote:
>> On 19.04.2016 17:19, Job Snijders wrote:
>> 
>>> I propose a new attribute for network records called
>>> "max_allowed_peering_next_hop_latency".
>>> 
>> 
>> Excellent idea! Where did this idea only came from ;-)
>> 
>>> The purpose of this attribute is to signal to other interested parties
>>> (human peering coordinators looking for new interconnection, or computer
>>> scripts generating route server configs) what the maximum unidirectional
>>> latency can be between the two (potentially) peering routers.
>>> 
>> 
>> Who of us really is able to do measurement of unidirectional latency?
>> Hence I would propose to stick to some sort of RTT (if I understand your
>> post in the other thread correctly it would be
>> Min(RTT_of_a_series_of_pings)/2))
>> 
>> Otoh I do not really care as long as it is easy to measure the latency.
>> Doing it via ping *is* easy.
>> 
>> 
>> Kind regards
>> Arnold
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