Re: requirements draft revision

[Joe Abley <jabley-ietf@automagic.org>]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 09:54:49AM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
> > A transit network is one which carries traffic which is neither originated
> > from nor destined to addresses within itself.
> 
> s/itself/its customers/
> 
> > A transit provider is one which maintains peering agreements with other
> > providers to give access from its customers to the customers of those
> > providers.
> 
> nope.  a transit provider might have no peering, and purely purchase.
> e.g. savvis, internap, ...

The last definition I had was this:

  A "transit provider", T,  of enterprise E is an enterprise
  which provides connectivity to the Internet for E which
  extends beyond the part of the Internet operated by T. T
  and E are directly connected.

Is this accurate/sufficient?


Joe