<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 24 Mar 2015, at 11:46 pm, Paul Julian <<a href="mailto:paul@oxygennetworks.com.au" class="">paul@oxygennetworks.com.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Question to the knowledgeable….<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Is a business which does only peering between service providers classed as a service provider themselves ?<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">In other words if you are only passing data between one entity and another, and you don’t provide any services except for the connectivity to pass that data would that still classify you as a service provider ?<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I suppose an example would be a peering company like Megaport (just an example), if they are just passing data through from people to other people without doing anything with that data or providing any services like email of website hosting etc, are they are service provider ?</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Megaport may be a bad example, as they (i believe) have a carrier license… :-)</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I’d argue that any peering provider is at the very least a Carriage Service Provider (they’re providing a form of carriage - effectively a very limited internet service…)</div></div></body></html>