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>Ideally, participants in an internet exchange purely exchange routing information

I would hope they exchange Internet traffic as well.



That really depends on local policy. It could be that an AS x present on multiple IXes (assuming another peer AS y is present on the same IXes) prefers sending traffic for AS y on IX t, while AS y prefers sending traffic for AS x on IX v.

Of course, the goal is to transport traffic in many directions, but in essence only routing information is explicitly exchanged.




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