Networks ignoring prepends?

Mon Jan 22 14:49:27 UTC 2024

On Mon, 22 Jan 2024, William Herrin wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 5:24 AM Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick at ianai.net> wrote:
>> Standard practice is to localpref your customers up, which makes prepends irrelevant. Why would anyone expect different behavior?
>
> 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)?

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