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Hi <BR>
I agree with your idea, I believe this policy of placing greater significance to external links worked when we didn't have significant local content or even IXPs to carry this traffic and have not evolved fast enough to accommodate these changes.<BR>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: Mark Tinka [mailto:mark.tinka@seacom.mu] <BR>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 8:37 AM<BR>
To: Ishmael Mulli (KE)<BR>
Cc: Andrew Alston; <a href="mailto:afnog@afnog.org">afnog@afnog.org</a><BR>
Subject: Re: [afnog] How to convince providers to take the sane option....<BR>
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On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 06:22:59 AM Ishmael Mulli (KE)<BR>
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> We experienced this problem a couple of years back and one major <BR>
> realization we made was that a lot of the providers out there were <BR>
> propagating routes with different prefix lengths from different <BR>
> points within their network as opposed to consistently propagating the <BR>
> exact prefix from the core outwards.<BR>
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Ishmael, this is the succinct observation, yes. The question is - why?<BR>
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I've posited some ideas as to why I think this happens. Do you have any thoughts on the same?<BR>
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Mark.<BR>
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