<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Thanks Valdis for clarifying this. Based on this thread discussion, I’m getting this understanding as well. <br><br>-<div>Prasun</div><div><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,<br class="">Prasun Kanti Dey<br class="">Ph.D. Candidate,<br class="">Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering,<br class="">University of Central Florida<br class="">web: <a href="https://prasunkantidey.github.io/portfolio/" class="">https://prasunkantidey.github.io/portfolio</a>/</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Jun 20, 2019, at 10:28 AM, Valdis Klētnieks <<a href="mailto:valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu">valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 16:20:37 -0400, Prasun Dey said:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>So, my question was more like to understand when an ISP decides to claim</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>itself as any of these (Heavy Outbound/ Inbound or Balanced)? From an ISP’s own</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>point of view, at what point, it says, my outbound:inbound is something, so I’m</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Heavy Outbound.</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>Often, just "We're eyeballs, so heavily inbound" or similar quick estimation</span><br><span>with no real numbers attached. Otherwise, often whatever the ISP's management</span><br><span>thinks will give the best results when trying to convince another network to</span><br><span>peer rather than have to pay for transit, or other similar reasons often only</span><br><span>vaguely connected to reality.</span><br><span></span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>