Re: oh k can you see

Contrary to popular belief, leaks through peers in remote regions do not always result in huge AS_PATHs which are never selected by the rest of the network. For example, some of the most remote and poorly- connected ISPs that F is announced to from local nodes are transit customers of international, default-free carriers.

bingo! thanks to, among other techno-colonialist games, the usaid leland intiative, entire countries are direct non-bgp customers of a local telco monopoly which is a customer of a european or american telco monopoly. randy