While Griffin does not require a signed peering agreement with its peers it expects peers to be in line with the following policy:
- The total peak-time traffic exchange between Griffin and any peer should exceed 10Mbps. Griffin does not require any particular traffic ratio.
- The peer must neither be an existing transit customer of Griffin, or a downstream customer of a Griffin customer.
- The peer must maintain sufficient backbone capacity to exchange traffic without congestion.
- Hot-potato routing is implied, Griffin does not honour MEDs.
- The peer must have consistent route announcements at all peering locations.
- Each interconnection between the peer and Griffin is required to have no less than 100Mbit/s capacity. Multiple interconnects are preferred, the latest list of Griffin PoPs can be found at http://www.griffin.com/Network/.
- The peer must operate a 24x7x365 NOC which can be contacted via email or telephone. A clear escalation path from this NOC must be defined in order to quickly identify and resolve network problems.
- The peer must be able and willing to quickly trace and mitigate ongoing denial of service attacks, and malicious network activities. A qualified engineer must be available within a reasonable timeframe in order to mitigate attacks over any interconnect between Griffin and the peer.
- The peer must not establish a static route, default route (route of last resort), utilise any other means to send traffic over the interconnection for a route that is not advertised over BGP or otherwise abuse the peering relationship. Neither party shall restrict, or otherwise temper with traffic bound to the other party.
- Both parties should be willing to register route, route6 and other related objects in an IRR database. These objects should be maintained in order to ensure they are current for the purpose of filtering.
- Griffin reserve the right to temporarily suspend any or all interconnections with a peer without prior notice, in the event that the peer; network is causing operational, or material damage to Griffin. Any interconnect suspended in this manner will be restored as soon as both parties are confident that the operational issues are cured and cleared.
- Griffin reserves the right to refuse peering with any party based on commercial and/or operational reasons.