[2456] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: the Internet Backbone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Sat Apr 6 11:38:48 1996
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 09:35:01 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <v01520d08ad8c413b2228@[168.143.1.215]>
On Sat, 6 Apr 1996, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:
> Michael Dillon and others have put forth some good definitions. Would any
> of you active contributors be interested in trying an RFC on this? I'll
> step up to editing it if it would be useful.
I've been fleshing out a longer explanation in my mind last evening so
I'm willing to continue with this.
> HCB> I'm not sure about the part that a Tier 2 provider never provides
> HCB> transit.
This is true. The lines of division are somewhat fuzzy. My feeling is
that the Tier 2 provider is not primarily in the business of supplying
transit but may do so incidentally to their primary operations and even
then.
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