Re: Tier-2 reachability and multihoming

[Randy Bush <randy () psg com>]

i suspect that, rather than being a sociologist trying to
catorgize operators on the surliness scale, at which you
seem to have succeeded splendidly, you may be tring to
understand AS relationships.  you may find a useful paper
trail that kinda goes from

  
<http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/rd/22812611%2C453493%2C1%2C0.25%2CDownload/http%3AqSqqSqwww-unix.ecs.umass.eduqSq%7ElgaoqSqton.ps>

to the more current and more intuitively believable

   
<http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/rd/59669334%2C702627%2C1%2C0.25%2CDownload/http%3AqSqqSqwww.ieee-infocom.orgqSq2004qSqPapersqSq34_2.PDF>

randy