[165164] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Wed Aug 21 13:23:32 2013
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:15:36 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: "William F. Maton Sotomayor" <wmaton@ottix.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1308211126280.15302@iskra.ottix.net>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:10:32PM -0400, William F. Maton Sotomayor wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2013, Clayton Zekelman wrote:
>
> >Just wondering aloud if an ISP that did have commercial interest could run
> >a non-member driven exchange point successfully as long as they had
> >pricing and policies that were similar to member driven exchange points.
>
> Verrrry interesting that you raise that.
>
> IIRC, Albuquerque has NMIX which I think was setup as for-profit. (John
> Brown are you still here?) Well over a decade ago now, my recollection is
> fuzzy. I don't recall the reasoning in choosing for-profit over
> nont-for-profit.
[NMIX couldn't pay its bills so it lost a lot of support/clients]
/bill
>
> wfms
