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Peering Types

Strategic Explorations (StrExp) classifies BGP sessions into distinct types to manage routing policies effectively.

Default Policies

  • For IANA, StrExp considers all requests by default to be of the Peer type unless otherwise specified.
  • For DN42, StrExp considers all requests by default to be of the Full type unless otherwise specified, and believes that this will help improve the decentralization level of the entire network.

Matrix

FROM(right) TO(down) full priv transit transit downstream priv peer peer self unknown
full Y N Y Y N Y Y Y
priv transit N N N N N N Y N
transit N N N Y N N Y Y
downstream Y N Y Y N* Y* Y Y
priv peer N N N N N* N Y (no-export) N
peer N N N Y* N* N Y N
self Y Y Y Y Y (path=1) Y - Y

Exceptions

Entries marked with * in internal docs imply exceptions are allowed based on specific bilateral agreements.