Re: [sidr] pCNT & prepending

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Thu, 28 July 2011 17:31 UTC

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> It's not clear to me how the system is protected from some
> unscrupulous transit provider setting their AS's to zero width, in
> order to attract more traffic.

and what is to stop them from using the transparency hack today?

randy