[38617] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why so little traffic from C&W
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Fri Jun 8 12:16:59 2001
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
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To: bicknell@ufp.org (Leo Bicknell)
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 16:40:10 +0000 (UCT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20010608120339.A53848@ussenterprise.ufp.org> from "Leo Bicknell" at Jun 08, 2001 12:03:39 PM
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> 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.
There was never any governmental sanction of the term or
concept of tier anything associate with the NSFnet or its
transition. The term was coined in that timeframe by Vadim.
--bill
