Dec. 5, 2015
4:27 p.m.
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. 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. -- Alex Balashov | Principal | Evariste Systems LLC 303 Perimeter Center North, Suite 300 Atlanta, GA 30346 United States Tel: +1-800-250-5920 (toll-free) / +1-678-954-0671 (direct) Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.csrpswitch.com/