Not all routes are created equal. If you have a PNI and an IX connection of equal capacity, obviously the IX connection will fill up first given that there is more opportunity there. Also, there are more moving parts in an IX (and accompanying route servers), thus more to go wrong. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Tinka" <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog@ics-il.net> Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2019 7:09:54 AM Subject: Re: Calling LinkedIn, Amazon and Akamai @ DE-CIX NY On 31/Jan/19 14:59, Mike Hammett wrote: Do people not know how to use local pref and MED to prefer PNI over route server? We don't particularly care how the routes are learned. Routes are routes. Our motivation for or against peering with an RS is granular policy control, and the level of trust we can put in the stability of the same over time. Mark.