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Re: valley free routing?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Fri Mar 7 11:41:00 2014

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From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 11:40:14 -0500
To: "Siegel, David" <David.Siegel@level3.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Siegel, David <David.Siegel@level3.com> wrote:
> Having been employed by a provider V in one such example of the below,
> I viewed it as a temporary, partial transit relationship.  Does such a
> situation meet Bill's original definition?

Hi David,

I think you have the right of it. That the recipient elects only to
use the link for a limited set of destinations is an ordinary part of
transit service. In Randy's example, a peering link was converted to a
transit link on a short term basis.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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