Re: T1 vs. T2 [WAS: Apology: [Tier-2 reachability and multihoming]]

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

> and if you peer with all networks in the 'transit free zone' then you too become 
> transit free also.

        er.. hate to rain on your parade but if I peer with everyone 
        i need/want to exchange traffic with, i am transit-free, even
        if I -NEVER- touch any other part of the commercial Internet...
        my packets get to where they need to go and all packets I want
        get to me.  my life is good ... even if I only appear as vestigal
        to the commercial Internet, if I appear at all.

        how would you classify such a network?  T1, T2, ODDBALL-0, 
        non-Internet-265, ???  

--bill