RE: Definition of ISP vs Transit provider

[Jacques Latour <Jacques.Latour () cira ca>]

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-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Miles Fidelman
Sent: November 22, 2017 11:29 PM
To: Luke Guillory <lguillory () 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 
> <mfidelman () meetinghouse net <mailto:mfidelman () 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_nanog () vaxination ca <mailto: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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