[38613] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Definition of Tier-1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (RJ Atkinson)
Fri Jun 8 11:28:28 2001
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Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 11:24:25 -0400
To: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
From: RJ Atkinson <rja@inet.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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At 17:43 07/06/01, J.D. Falk wrote:
> Breaking down? It used to be that anyone connected directly
> to an exchange point was tier one, and the tiers are pretty
> obvious beyond that. Now that everyone's at the exchanges,
> "tier one" is simply a marketing term.
Curious. I've never heard that definition of Tier-1 before.
The common definition is "doesn't pay any other ISP to exchange routes
and traffic", or so I've thought for the past decade.
Ran
