[posting this message after having looked for answers elsewhere including the archives, but found no satisfactory answers] i wanted to ask the operations community about how backups are typically implemented. i am more interested in backup implementations, in which a failure would expose a different origin AS (this would exclude prepending based backups). 1. when a network is multihomed, and one of the links fails, would you expect a smooth transition (as seen in the bgp tables of a remote AS) from one origin AS to another (modulo convergence effects)? 2. can a failure (anywhere in the network) ever expose another origin AS for some AS's while it stays the same for some? i guess it can, when the network is being persistently announced from both origins, and under normal scenario one origin could be hidden from some AS's. would this also hold for a routing table as rich as routeviews? 3. can a failure ever cause more-specifics with a different (from the origin of the less-specific) origin AS to appear (again, as seen from a remote AS)? this might depend on how backups are implemented - so what i am asking is, is this a common/possible case? thanks, -- ratul