[28179] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering Table Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Nielsen)
Wed Apr 19 15:31:52 2000
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 13:28:19 -0600 (MDT)
From: Christian Nielsen <cnielsen@nielsen.net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Randy Bush wrote:
> > To further complicate matters, many networks out there
> > are mis-representing themselves as [cost-free-] peering
> > with other networks when they are actually customers, or
> > in some type of 'settlement' arrangement.
>
> i contend that one can count the true tier one networks on the fingers
> of two hands.
is a network tier one if they have settlement based peering? or is it just a
network that sees no transit routes from any one company?
christian
