[afnog] How to convince providers to take the sane option....

[Mark Tinka]

On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 07:58:05 PM Andrew Alston wrote:

> Unfortunately, I also have to say that I believe what we
> are seeing here is the result of a massive amount of
> legacy hardware deployed that prevents people from
> running full table, if there was more full table
> deployment, these issues would have been seen and dealt
> with already (I assume)

To be honest, I don't think this is the issue, Andrew.

There a lot of operators in eastern and southern Africa that 
have capable hardware who are still routing inconsistently; 
be it inconsitent routing within Africa, or inconsistent 
routing between Africa and non-Africa interconnect points.

If you ask me, a lot of operators in Africa place a higher 
significance on circuits that travel to Europe, than to 
those that remain within Africa (regional or in-country). 
While this makes sense for traffic that does not natively 
reside within Africa, it does not make sense for traffic 
that can be picked up within Africa. But, unfortunately, 
this policy is extended to all links, regardless of whether 
they serve Africa or non-Africa traffic.

Mark.
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