| This isn't something I really care to make a big argument of, but my point | was that for many ISPs, the path will go from: | | SELF - EXODUS | | to: | | SELF - OTHER BACKBONE - C&W | | for a net increase in average path length. Are we talking AS_Path attributes here? If so, all this means is that now we don't announce OTHER BACKBONE routes to C&W/EXODUS, which we probably weren't doing anyway. Or are we talking forwarding paths, which are _different_ (and not necessarily stable even in the presence of perfect AS_Path stability)? If so, have we added any bottlenecks or sources of packet corruption? If none have been added, a change in the number of links and routers traversed is meaningless. (Note that it is possible that the number of links and routers DECREASES). Sean.