Ensuring Routes are Accepted

• Transit Traffic Paranoia (cont’d)

  • Some downstream providers choose “none of the above”

    • Want to maintain market share in countries - no direct peering with in-country peers
    • Don’t want to pay for Transit Agreements
    • If No Direct Peers, Policy #3 is useless
  • 3 Solutions:

    • Ask nicely
    • Pay to Peer
    • Suffer the Consequences

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