So we realized that
Most gigapops have only one service offering,
and give everyone a mix of I2 and ISP routes.
The problem would only get worse once we had
customers not subscribed to Abilene (now do).
There wasn’t an easy way out that could “get
back” routes not preferred by bgp when sub-
setted by bgp communities for advertisement.
We had seen same issue in minor way with
vBNS, but NGIX Abilene/vBNS peering solved it
Lots of folks run 2547, and Juniper supports well