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 <bhuff...@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 >>> > -- Ken Chase - k...@heavycomputing.ca skype:kenchase23 +1 416 897 6284 Toronto Canada Heavy Computing - Clued bandwidth, colocation and managed linux VPS @151 Front St. W.
