19 Apr
2000
19 Apr
'00
8:28 p.m.
A large file of baseline traceroutes could replace the benefits of disclosure, I suppose.
if it could, many of us would beg someone to do it RIGOROUSLY and publish. a few problems: o routing is not always symmetric, or i guess rarely is o you would have to do it from'*many* distributed locations to many distributed locations to see all the peering points through the potato fog o heck, due to bgp best path propagation, unless you are on a router with which P is a peer, you can not really tell if C is a customer or peer of P. o and it still would not tell you who is paying whom when it is peering randy