[38715] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: non-op (Re: Definition of Tier-1)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Mon Jun 11 22:19:19 2001
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 19:18:53 -0700
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0106111310570.17571-100000@www.everquick.net>; from eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net on Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:14:23PM +0000
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On 06/11/01, "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net> wrote:
>
> > Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 12:16:36 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: Travis Pugh <tpugh@shore.net>
> >
> > That sales BS is probably prompted by customers telling sales people
> > that they won't buy service from anyone but a "tier 1" provider. This
> > leads to many creative definitions of tier 1.
>
> So, how firm is the "transit-free" definition? (That's what I always
> thought was the proper definition, but it's been obliterated in the past
> couple of years...) Firm enough to slap abusers with false advertising
> suits? ;-P
Well, for one thing, "transit-free" doesn't mean that you
can route to all the other "transit-free" providers....
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