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Re: Definition of ISP vs Transit provider


From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse net>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 21:06:58 -0700

On 11/22/17 2:50 PM, William Herrin wrote:

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei <
jfmezei_nanog () 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

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In practice, there is.  .... Yogi Berra


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