Re: oh k can you see

[Randy Bush <randy () psg com>]

> 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