On Sat, 6 Apr 1996, Jim Browning wrote:
Perhaps there needs to be a "Global Service Provider" or "Tier/Level 0" designation for those with International 'backbone circuits' and routers at meet points in other countries??
I think we just need to recognize that there are Tier 1 providers in other countries. Maybe we should replace the term "national" with "broad geographic regions encompassing a signficant percentage of a continent". Then providers like EUNet would qualify as Tier 1 providers although, like MCI, they also provide Tier 3 ISP services. If Sprint, MCI, ANS, Alternet/UUNET, PSI and AGIS/Net99 are the Tier 1 providers in North America, what networks would qualify as Tier 1in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region? Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com