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Carrier classification
so cogent has no routes to some amount of v6? ie no routes
to some prefixes?
/kc
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 07:56:14PM -0700, Large Hadron Collider said:
>My terminology of tiers are:
>
>Tier 1 - is in few or no major disputes, has no transit, and is able to
>access over three nines percent of the internet
>
>Tier 2 - as Tier 1, but has transit.
>
>Cogent is neither on v6, and I have no clue about v4.
>
>HE is probably Tier 2 on v4, and is Tier 1 on v6.
>
>
>On 15/05/2017 19:27, Ca By wrote:
>> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 6:44 PM Bradley Huffaker <bhuffake at caida.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 09:24:18AM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote:
>>>> Nowadays, I'm hearing this less and less, but it's not completely gone.
>>> Putting aside the question of their importance, there is a small number
>>> of ISPs that do no pay for transit. If you don't call them Tier 1, what
>>> do you call them? Transit Free Providers (TFPs)?
>>
>> I think the broader and more relevant question is -- Does it matter who
>> pays who ? Why name an irrelevant characteristic?
>>
>> Cogent may not buy transit but i would not purchase their service since
>> they fail to have full internet reach (google and HE)
>>
>> And xyz incumbent may have a poor network, but they may get free peering or
>> may get paid-peering because of their incumbent / monopoly status... that
>> is not a reason for me to purchase from them or think they are an elite
>> tier 1.
>>
>> The dynamica of the day are more around reach and quality, not some legacy
>> measure of how market-failure facilitate anti-social behavior
>>
>>
>>
>>> --
>>> the value of a world model is not how accurately it captures reality
>>> but how often it leads us to take appropriate action
>>>
>
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