Ben,
>I know of several transit providers that will allow customers to use an IXP as
>a kind of virtual access circuit (which itself is a poor idea), but I would be
>*very* surprised if any of them allow RS peerings to be the control plane
>interconnection (intentionally, at least).
Good.
Nick and all,
Thank you. What you all shared/discussed is very useful info.
>Almost all RS's are transparent these days. Usually IXPs go to lengths to
>ensure that the RS ASN doesn't appear in the AS path.
Good to know that. Well, that means there can be an occasional RS that is
>> If the underlying question is "should the ASPA path validation
>> algorithm have a corner case that accommodates this?", that is a
>> very, very firm "no" from me!
>
> aol
opologies, it seems i used an american idiom, and an antique one at
that. a few folk were brave enough to ask, so ...
