[162704] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Tier1 blackholing policy?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Tue Apr 30 12:41:48 2013
In-Reply-To: <517FF20F.90203@dfn.de>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:41:19 -0400
To: North American Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Composed on a virtual keyboard, please forgive typos.=20
On Apr 30, 2013, at 12:32, Thomas Schmid <schmid@dfn.de> wrote:
> Am 30.04.2013 17:53, schrieb Patrick W. Gilmore:
>> "Core"? Seriously? Which of these statements are true: A) Is it impossibl=
e for an end user or business (i.e. non-ISP) to get a direct connection to a=
"Tier 1" (whatever the hell that means) provider. B) Most traffic on the In=
ternet traverses Tier 1s today. C) A Tier 1 has a different profit motive th=
an a Tier 2 (whatever the hell that means) providers. D) All Tier 1 provider=
s are larger than all Tier 2 providers. We'll just skip over the E) all of t=
he above.
>=20
> agree - I oversimplified, but I think you got the idea ...
No, I did not get the point.=20
I am not trolling. I just do not understand what you meant. Probably because=
there is no "core", so your statement did not make sense.
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
