[86316] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: oh k can you see
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Nov 1 15:31:06 2005
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 10:30:31 -1000
To: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Cc: Stephen J.Wilcox <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>,
Daniel Karrenberg <daniel.karrenberg@ripe.net>, <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Contrary to popular belief, leaks through peers in remote regions do
> not always result in huge AS_PATHs which are never selected by the
> rest of the network. For example, some of the most remote and poorly-
> connected ISPs that F is announced to from local nodes are transit
> customers of international, default-free carriers.
bingo!
thanks to, among other techno-colonialist games, the usaid leland
intiative, entire countries are direct non-bgp customers of a local
telco monopoly which is a customer of a european or american telco
monopoly.
randy
