Stub entry: single definition derived from the EU NIS 2 Directive; sector-specific readings not yet documented — contributions welcome.
a network facility which enables the interconnection of more than two independent networks (autonomous systems), primarily for the purpose of facilitating the exchange of internet traffic, which provides interconnection only for autonomous systems and which neither requires the internet traffic passing between any pair of participating autonomous systems to pass through any third autonomous system nor alters or otherwise interferes with such traffic
Directive (EU) 2022/2555 (NIS 2 Directive), Art. 6(18)