[190163] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOG67 - Tipping point of community and sponsor bashing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Temkin)
Thu Jun 16 21:18:13 2016
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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 20:18:05 -0500
From: Dave Temkin <dave@temk.in>
To: Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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A key point:
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com>
wrote:
I have studied Netnod extensively because we want to become members
>
You meant a customer, but because of a lack of transparency (and great
marketing) amongst some IXPs, it's very easy to conflate member-mutual
IXPs, commercial, and non-profit IXPs. Being a "member" of NetNod provides
you with a very different set of benefits vs. LINX and unless you read the
letters of incorporation, you may not know that.