[38614] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Definition of Tier-1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (E.B. Dreger)
Fri Jun 8 11:53:02 2001
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 15:45:20 +0000 (GMT)
From: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
To: RJ Atkinson <rja@inet.org>
Cc: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>, nanog@merit.edu
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> Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 11:24:25 -0400
> From: RJ Atkinson <rja@inet.org>
>
> 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.
I've seen people colo'ed at AboveNet and Exodus claiming to be "Tier-1"
themselves.
IMESHO, "Tier-1" = provider who wishes to believe that they are something
special, but cannot provide any facts to substantiate their claim... hence
they resort to vaguely-defined-at-best sales BS.
Even if we were a "Tier-1" provider, I'd not want to use that term. What
is the point in bragging about something with no standard definition?
Eddy
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