Reseller C and the end user knows where the chain ends, but how do WE know that reseller C and end-user are honest? And how do we know that when reseller B says "no no, send calls here!" they are being bad actors when really the calls should skip reseller B and go directly to reseller C or end-user, if they so choose? On Mon, 7 Dec 2015, Peter E wrote:
In this scenario:
NANPA -> Level3 -> reseller A -> reseller B -> reseller C -> end-user
Only reseller C and the end user knows where the chain ends. So, what about some OSPF-like mechanism? Let's say that in this scenario Level3 has direct connections with both resellers A and C. It would know that it has two paths to C (the terminating switch) but would prefer the direct link to C unless it became unavailable.
On Dec 7, 2015, at 21:09, Peter Beckman <beckman at angryox.com> wrote:
NANPA -> Level3 -> reseller A -> reseller B -> reseller C -> end-user
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