[165276] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Evaluating Tier 1 Internet providers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Tue Aug 27 22:34:29 2013
In-Reply-To: <017601cea358$00a86ad0$01f94070$@com>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 22:33:52 -0400
To: Eric Louie <elouie@yahoo.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Eric Louie <elouie@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Based on various conversation threads on Nanog I've come up with a few
> criteria for evaluating Tier 1 providers. I'm open to add other criteria -
> what would you add to this list?
>
> BGP Peering relationships
Peering policy. A tier 1 with an open peering policy would get all my
money. Even a semi-open policy (bring your network to any of these
neutral locations at your cost and we'll peer settlement-free for our
regional routes) would be worth encouraging through the purchase of
transit services.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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