AS39335 Interconnection & Mutual Packet Forwarding Understanding
(Version 2025.08.09 – Subject to revision without notice, ceremonial amendment, or whim)

AS39335 welcomes opportunities for mutually agreeable packet exchange with networks of compatible disposition and sufficient whimsicality. This Peering Policy outlines the expectations, ceremonial processes, and modest fiscal considerations for such arrangements.

1. Scope of Applicability
This document governs voluntary, consensual, and otherwise pleasant peering relationships with AS39335. Parties seeking transit, remote peering, or unsolicited pizza delivery should refer to the AS39335 Miscellaneous Encounters Policy (unpublished).

2. Initiation of Peering Dialogue
2.1. Requests for peering must be initiated either in person (preferably over coffee, tea, or similar hot beverages) or via ChaosPost.
2.2. Electronic mail, carrier pigeons, and shouted messages across conference halls are expressly recognized as inauthentic and will be disregarded.

3. Protocol Expectations
3.1. All peers must advertise IPv6 routes of operational utility.
3.2. IPv4 route advertisement is deemed optional, supplementary, and nostalgically encouraged, but not mandatory.

4. Administrative Billing Considerations
In the interest of promoting mindful neighborly behavior on shared mediums, the following charges apply:

ARP Requests: USD $10 per request (billed in real time, rounded up to nearest request).

NDP Requests: USD $0.25 per request, except the first five per hour are complimentary under the NDP Courtesy Allowance Program.

Received Router Advertisements (RAs): USD $100 per denied RA (denial defined as any RA rejected by local filtering, policing, or spontaneous laughter).

AS39335 reserves the right to issue invoices in any functional or defunct currency, including but not limited to Dogecoin, Dutch guilders, and expired gift cards.

5. Technical Parameters
While no specific bandwidth, geographic, or redundancy requirements are imposed, peers are encouraged to:

Maintain operational configurations consistent with common sense.

Avoid routing black holes unless aesthetically justified.

Refrain from announcing Martian networks unless pre-coordinated for dramatic effect.

6. Termination of Peering
Peering may be discontinued at any time, without cause, reason, or forewarning, provided the terminating party can say “It’s not you, it’s me” with a straight face.

7. Miscellany
AS39335 reserves the right to interpret, reinterpret, and misinterpret this policy as circumstances dictate. Adherence to the letter of this policy is appreciated, but adherence to its spirit—that of collegial absurdity—is paramount.


8. Definitions
For the avoidance of doubt, the creation of further doubt, and the entertainment of all parties, the following terms are defined for purposes of this Policy:

8.1 “AS39335” – The Autonomous System operated by the signatories of this policy, herein occasionally referred to as We, Us, Our, or That Network With The Thing.

8.2 “Peering” – The bilateral exchange of packets, octets, or other transmissible binary substances for mutual benefit, amusement, or curiosity, without recourse to financial settlement except as otherwise humorously specified.

8.3 “ChaosPost” – The postal system at hacking conferences and camps. If it has a public stamp, it does not count.

8.4 “IPv6” – An Internet Protocol version where address lengths are such that nobody memorizes them, and copy-pasting becomes the dominant skill.

8.5 “IPv4” – An historic addressing scheme, now primarily used for legacy interconnects, digital archaeology, and ceremonial BGP announcements.

8.6 “ARP Request” – A Layer 2 broadcast whose intent is to locate a MAC address corresponding to an IPv4 address, here treated as a billable luxury commodity akin to rare truffles.

8.7 “NDP Request” – A Neighbor Discovery Protocol solicitation occurring over IPv6, here billed modestly to encourage thrift without inducing panic.

8.8 “RA” or “Router Advertisement” – A form of unsolicited IPv6 routing suggestion, sometimes welcome, often denied, and always memorable when invoiced.

8.9 “Denied RA” – An RA discarded, ignored, filtered, or ceremonially burned in effigy by AS39335. Denial may be technical, philosophical, or purely aesthetic.

8.10 “BGP” – The Border Gateway Protocol, a polite suggestion engine for packet routing that may or may not be obeyed, depending on whim.

8.11 “Route of Operational Utility” – Any prefix that, when announced, leads to a destination which returns packets in approximately the same decade.

8.12 “Martian Networks” – Network prefixes reserved for fictional, experimental, or extraterrestrial use. Not to be confused with Earth-based misconfigurations.

8.13 “NDP Courtesy Allowance Program” – The first five NDP requests per hour, billed at $0.00, provided as a gesture of goodwill and neighborliness. Abuse of this allowance for performance testing is frowned upon but grudgingly tolerated.

8.14 “Invoice” – A formal request for payment that may be presented electronically, on paper, engraved in stone, or yelled dramatically across a conference floor.

8.15 “Gift Cards” – Prepaid instruments for retail goods or services, which, when expired, become a recognized settlement currency under this Policy.

8.16 “Collegial Absurdity” – The prevailing operational philosophy of AS39335, wherein both parties agree to conduct peering with equal measures of technical competence and theatrical nonsense.