8 Jun
2001
8 Jun
'01
2:09 p.m.
If you have an ISP which is diversely connected to all other(?) tier-1 providers, and has a peering relationship such that the other ^ settlement-free tier-1s only announce the ISP's routes to their customers, then it would seem the ISP is from a technical standpoint a tier-1 provider.
IMO as an engineer and not a marketeer, who pays who should not have bearing on that definition, though I agree that the "doesn't pay" definition is the one I am familiar with.
as this is nanog, not nanmg, let's stick to the old definition. randy