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>