RE: valley free routing?

Having been employed by a provider V in one such example of the below, I viewed it as a temporary, partial transit relationship. Does such a situation meet Bill's original definition? -----Original Message----- From: Randy Bush [mailto:randy@psg.com] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 7:42 AM To: William Herrin Cc: North American Network Operators' Group Subject: Re: valley free routing? once upon a time, provider A and provider P were having a peering war, and provider V provided valley transit for P's prefixes to A. it was not meant to be seen publicly, but the traceroutes were posted to nanog, or maybe it was com-priv at the time. this is far from the only time this has happened. randy