[38622] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Definition of Tier-1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Fri Jun 8 13:32:06 2001
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 10:31:03 -0700
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010608112311.00a07b00@10.30.15.2>; from rja@inet.org on Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 11:24:25AM -0400
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On 06/08/01, RJ Atkinson <rja@inet.org> wrote:
> 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.
You know...the fact that nobody else has heard of it is making
me start to think that I must've fallen for marketing drivel
from a previous employer.
See how insidious this stuff is?
--
J.D. Falk SILENCE IS FOO!
<jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
