[165159] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Aug 21 11:00:03 2013
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 23:52:12 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
In-Reply-To: <249E24C3-302B-4963-A3D9-55D46EC921FF@pch.net>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> New IXP founders typically contact our staff
wow! i did not know we had the ixp god here! lemme go back to my
camera-ready dreadline. :)
> - Three or more participants
> - Shared layer-2 switch fabric across which participants peer with
> each other, exchanging customer routes
> - New participation is not too rigorously constrained (at least a
> domestic ISP new market entrant should be able to participate)
imiho, it is also nice if non-isp folk can participate, content, etc.
> - Participants do not receive a metered-rate bill based on utilization
that's a new one. i am not sure i understand why. just seems a finer
grained case of 100mb for $1, 1g for $5, and 10g for $20 or whatever.
and i would add carrier neutrality, i can haul fiber from anyone into
the exchange. this is pretty critical in the exchanges where i have
played.
randy
