Which hop is the correct 'next-hop' to use when Paris-Traceroute returns multiple next-hops? -

Which hop is the correct 'next-hop' to use when Paris-Traceroute returns multiple next-hops? -

i'm using m-lab , bigquery, dealing collected data. big portion of traceroutes have include 1 or more diamonds, have cycles. there standard way clean paris-traceroute data? thinking of taking shortest path. in case there multiple shortest paths (diamonds have multiple possible intermediate nodes give this), , i'm not sure of intermediate nodes best / candidate. take node responded first? take node appears in routes source destination (if 1 does)?

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