A comment wrt Strategy C 's major criticism:
 
What is hereby criticized is an allegeable inability for doing  
discriminating routing.
 
Anyone being familiar with OSPF will admit that you may advertise  individual 
links and individual nodes to "be not usable for transit". If this  were too 
general, then of course it may take some more effort to advertise  them "to be 
not usable (for transit) by well-specified packet flows".
Will say: it is not a fundamental question whether this kind of  economic 
model can be supported or not.
 
However, multipath routes via  more remote neighbors, are,  fundamentally !!, 
disabled, if such a neighbor has at first received  an UPDATE message from 
the current router, and has no reason to propagate a  worse path to this 
current 
router. Here the economic model excludes a  significant portion of multipath 
alternatives, which cannot be enabled without  an enormous churn increase.
 
Heiner
 
 
 
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