North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Why so little traffic from C&W
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 04:40:10PM +0000, [email protected] wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:45:41PM +0100, Simon Lockhart wrote: > > > > I believe that "Tier-1" no longer means anything. It was a term > > that had meaning when the government got out of the business of > > running NSFNet, and created "Tier-1 Providers" that connected to > > "Tier-2 Providers". At that time (if perhaps only for a fairly > > brief time) there were actual defined tiers, and they ment something. > > There was never any governmental sanction of the term or > concept of tier anything associate with the NSFnet or its > transition. And this is definately a good thing. I don't think I would want to see my tax money being used by the Department of Standards to define "Tier-1". Thanks- Rachel -- I must admit, you have brought Religion in my life. I never believed in Hell until I met you.
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