[28188] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering Table Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Wed Apr 19 17:53:34 2000
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 14:46:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net>
To: Rodney L Caston <largo@megatokyo.com>
Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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> Howabout offering us your pearls and letting us in on who these
> mysterious select group of 'real' tier one networks are?
By comparing competing claims, I think I've decifered the "tier" system:
Tier 1 is the claimant's marketing department.
Tier 2 is the claimant's customers and the claimant's competitors.
Tier 3 is the claimant's customer customers, competitors' customers, and
customers' competitors.
-Bill
