I can't seem to find the answer for this. But I'm curious as to what exactly is proposed.
On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei < jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca> wrote: > The FCC is about to reclassify "Broadband Internet Access Service" as an > information service instead of Telecommunications Service. This > prombpted the following question which isn't about the FCC action per say. > > This is about how does one define Transit provider vs ISP ? > > Cogent for instance acts as a transit provider to other networks but > also sells connectivity to companies. > > Peer1 in Canada used to sell "transit" to a then small emerging ISP, but > as its sole transit provider, provided the BGP management as well as > peering at Torix. Is the service to the ISP still called "transit" ? > > Or would ISP be defined as the organsation which assigns IPs to end > users via PPPoE of DHCP ? > > One could argue that a network which assigns 4 or less IPs per customer > would be an ISP. But what about IPv6 where the ISP could give each end > user a /64 ? > > Just curious to see if there are agreed upon definitions from the > network operators's point of view. > > I note that large companies tend to do everything from transit, to > residential ISP, business ISP, libraries, airports etc. For Bell Canada, > it is almost all under AS577. So separating what is telecom and what is > information becomes more "interesting". > > > > > > > > > > As a point of reference this is what I *think* the FCC defines as an ISP: > > ## > 23. Broadband Internet access service also does not include virtual > private network (VPN) services, content delivery networks (CDNs), > hosting or data storage services, or Internet backbone services (if > those services are separate from broadband Internet access service), > consistent with past Commission precedent.69 The Commission has > historically distinguished these services from “mass market” services, > as they do not provide the capability to transmit data to and receive > data from all or substantially all Internet endpoints.70 We do not > disturb that finding here. > > 24. Finally, we observe that to the extent that coffee shops, > bookstores, airlines, private end- user networks such as libraries and > universities, and other businesses acquire broadband Internet access > service from a broadband provider to enable patrons to access the > Internet from their respective establishments, provision of such service > by the premise operator would not itself be considered a broadband > Internet access service unless it was offered to patrons as a retail > mass market service, as we define it here.71 Likewise, when a user > employs, for example, a wireless router or a Wi-Fi hotspot to create a > personal Wi-Fi network that is not intentionally offered for the benefit > of others, he or she is not offering a broadband Internet access > service, under our definition, because the user is not marketing and > selling such service to residential customers, small business, and other > end-user customers such as schools and libraries. > ## > > The full 210 proposed FCC decision is at: > https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-347927A1.pdf > >
