[144172] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Sun Sep 4 10:04:41 2011
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <m2wrdoz9w0.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 10:04:36 -0400
To: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 4, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
>> I have worked for more then one transit free network, and have work
>> with people from (most) of the rest, we always prefer cust over peer,
>> every time.
>=20
> again, more than one of the world's largest providers prefer peers. =
and
> even if they wanted to change, it would be horribly anti-pola to the
> affected customers, like white hot wires. and one just does not do =
that
> to customers.
I repeat, you are obviously talking about a small subset of customers, =
right? Please clarify.
Because I know customers of all 14 transit free networks, and these =
customers all believe the network is preferring their routes unless the =
customer sends a community to override that preference.
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
