Re: Networks ignoring prepends?

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () baylink com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon Lewis" <jlewis () lewis org>

> On Mon, 22 Jan 2024, William Herrin wrote:
> > It gives me, your paying customer, less control over my routing
> > through your network than if I wasn't your paying customer. That
> > seems... backwards.
>
> Not at all.  Think like a service provider.
>
> "I've got packets to deliver.  I've got 3 different classes of paths I can
> use.  One of them, I get paid to use.  One is cost neutral.  The last one,
> I pay to use."
>
> Which path would you pick (assuming you're trying to maximize revenue
> from your network)?

And here, you nail it, Jon:

The Internet stopped being an engineering construct many years ago, to its--and
our--detriment; things work much more poorly, and harder to understand and 
diagnose and fix, because of this.

His example, of packets going from Miami to Ft Lauderdale via One Wilshire, 
is a classic example.

Cheers,
-- jra

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