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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 12:03:39 -0400 From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> To: nanog@merit.edu Message-ID: <20010608120339.A53848@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Mail-Followup-To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ussenterprise.ufp.org>, nanog@merit.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <29013.991950341@sunf25>; from simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk on Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:45:41PM +0100 Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:45:41PM +0100, Simon Lockhart wrote: > I believe the latest common definition of tier 1 in that of an ISP with no > transit. I believe that "Tier-1" no longer means anything. It was a term that had meaning when the government got out of the business of running NSFNet, and created "Tier-1 Providers" that connected to "Tier-2 Providers". At that time (if perhaps only for a fairly brief time) there were actual defined tiers, and they ment something. The mutation of "tier 1" to mean "transit free" is questionable at best. After all, if you're transit free, you should just advertise that fact if you think it's important. That said, many marketing folks still want to use the term "Tier-1". When a prospective customer asks me if my employer is "Tier-1" I always respond with "What does Tier-1 mean to you", and then address their specific concerns. You get some wildly different answers too. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440 Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org
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