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RE: the Internet Backbone

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Per Gregers Bilse)
Sat Apr 6 16:21:56 1996

From: Per Gregers Bilse <bilse@EU.net>
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 23:17:40 +0200
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960406120535.27821H-100000@sidhe.memra.com>
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>

On Apr 6, 12:10, Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com> wrote:
> I think we just need to recognize that there are Tier 1 providers in other 
> countries. Maybe we should replace the term "national" with 
> "broad geographic regions encompassing a signficant percentage of a 
> continent". Then providers like EUNet would qualify as Tier 1 providers
> although, like MCI, they also provide Tier 3 ISP services.

Since you mention us, we are obviously not a National Service Provider.
Maybe International Service Provider ... darn, acronym collision. :-)

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