On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 3:19 PM Geoff Huston <g...@apnic.net> wrote: > > > > > On 1 Aug 2022, at 11:10 am, Tom Paseka via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote: > > > > Paying for "peering", doesn't stop you being a tier-1. > > > > Being a Tier-1 means you are "transit free" (technical term, not > > commercial). No one is transiting your routes to other Tier-1 providers. > > > > There are a lot of potential interpretations of “Tier 1” and often folk use > the one that benefits their own classification (obviously!). The one I think > corresponds to the conventional interpretation is "I’m a Tier 1 because I > have a SKA peering agreement with other Tier 1 networks and I pay no other > network for transit or peering”, or more informally, “I’m a Tier 1 because I > pay nobody and everyone pays me, except for my peers.”
This conventional interpretation is the one I'm applying in this question. > I suspect that what goes on is “I’m a Tier 1 because I say so, and noone has > contradicted me yet!" :-) Which is unfortunately what some operators serving my region try applying. And after being contradicted, they move to "regional Tier-1" speech, which is something nobody ever defined. Rubens
