[194633] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Carrier classification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bradley Huffaker)
Mon May 15 21:43:34 2017
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Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 15:05:30 -0700
From: Bradley Huffaker <bhuffake@caida.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 09:24:18AM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote:
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> Nowadays, I'm hearing this less and less, but it's not completely gone.
Putting aside the question of their importance, there is a small number
of ISPs that do no pay for transit. If you don't call them Tier 1, what
do you call them? Transit Free Providers (TFPs)?
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