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Re: Peering Table Question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (brett watson)
Wed Apr 19 16:28:19 2000

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To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 19 Apr 2000 16:10:12 CDT."
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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 13:17:25 -0700
From: brett watson <bwatson@mibh.net>
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> 
> > >   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.
> > 
> 
> Howabout offering us your pearls and letting us in on who these mysterious
> select group of 'real' tier one networks are?

the question is:  does it make any difference today, other than from a
marketing perspective?

-b



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