<div dir="ltr">Using BGP VERY Broadly here just as a peering example is all not how it actually routes.<div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Alex Balashov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abalashov@evaristesys.com" target="_blank">abalashov@evaristesys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Even BGP is not a decentralised, democratic, peer-to-peer utopia. Routes are distributed down in a rather hierarchical fashion; effectively, an oligopoly of global Tier 1 backbone operators ends up the clearinghouse.<br>
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And the weaknesses and vulnerabilities in BGP to the extent that it IS a very large "circle of trust" - though, as I said, the degree to which this is actually true is frequently exaggerated - suggest it's not a great model to emulate for voice/multimedia sessions.<span class="im HOEnZb"><br>
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