ISP: Anybody offering services over the internet, including Transit Providers. Transit Provider: An internet service "transit" where the whole Internet can reach your advertised network addresses.
:-) Jack -----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Miles Fidelman Sent: November 22, 2017 11:29 PM To: Luke Guillory <lguill...@reservetele.com> Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Definition of ISP vs Transit provider Well yes, but functionally, how is IP transport sufficiently different to make it an "information service" rather than a "telecommunications service?" At least that's the argument I'd make against reclassifying access services. Miles On 11/22/17 9:24 PM, Luke Guillory wrote: > > Those normally come with ASRs and a tariff from the regulated side of > things. At least from my experience anyway. > > Sent from my iPad > > On Nov 22, 2017, at 10:08 PM, Miles Fidelman > <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net <mailto:mfidel...@meetinghouse.net>> wrote: > >> On 11/22/17 2:50 PM, William Herrin wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei < >>> jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca <mailto: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 ? >> For that matter, how does one distinguish between someone delivering >> IP packets, vs. someone offering frame relay, or ATM - which are >> clearly telecom services? >> >> Miles Fidelman >> >> -- >> In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. >> In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra >> >> > Luke Guillory > Vice President – Technology and Innovation > > <http://www.rtconline.com> > Tel: 985.536.1212 > Fax: 985.536.0300 > Email: lguill...@reservetele.com > Web: www.rtconline.com > > > Reserve Telecommunications > 100 RTC Dr > Reserve, LA 70084 > > > *Disclaimer:* > The information transmitted, including attachments, is intended only > for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed and may contain > confidential and/or privileged material which should not disseminate, > distribute or be copied. Please notify Luke Guilloryimmediately by > e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this > e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to > be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, > corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain > viruses. Luke Guillorytherefore does not accept liability for any > errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a > result of e-mail transmission. > -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
