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Re: NANOG67 - Tipping point of community and sponsor bashing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnold Nipper)
Wed Jun 15 18:37:00 2016
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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 00:36:46 +0200
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Subject: Re: NANOG67 - Tipping point of community and sponsor bashing?
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On 15.06.2016 21:14, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> On 6/15/16 05:37, Mike Hammett wrote:
>> I agree that the SIX is a fine organization, but the framework of
>> the organization has little to do with the members getting screwed
>> over. A non-profit donation-based IX that doesn't produce results
>> could be screwing its "customers" over more than a MRC-based
>> for-profit IX that does produce.
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> An IX just needs to "produce" a layer 2 peering fabric. That's not a=20
> tall order to get results from. Anything beyond that is extra fluff.=20
> Some people want to pay more for the fluff, some don't.
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This is a *common* misunderstanding.
The by far easiest part of running a successful IXP is the technical part=
=2E
The more challenging is to build a community around it. And that's
purely non technical and involves a lot of *social* networking and
bringing people together.
btdt
Arnold
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