Optimal course of IXP development.pdf

Optimal course of IXP

development – NIX.CZ

Tomáš Maršálek

NIX.CZ, Director of Association

16.1.2009, PLNOG 2

Ideal IXP form

• HW interconnecting platform

• Association of competitors

• Place for experience sharing

• Place where member delegates share

their Company’s approaches to IXP

• Place enabling communication among

competitors

• Reflection of the Internet development

in the country or region

• Neutral body

What should not be an IXP

• Battlefield for competitors

• Equivalent to IP transit service

• Place for fulfilment of individual

member/person ambitions

• Rigid association where Board

member or management position

means just a business cards and

nice entry in CV

• Political force

NIX.CZ - history

• First discussion at RIPE in 1995

• Association established in 1996

• Long debate about neutrality,

political role and structure of NIX.CZ

• Up to 2002 based on voluntary work

• In 2002 first full-time employee

NIX.CZ - today

• Since 2002 transforming from non-

commercial association to commercial

association

• Periodical board members change

• Gradual increase in active marketing

• Participation in

essenti

l conferences (RIPE,NANOG,APRICOT) ‏

• EURO-IX membership – great platform

for sharing technical and political

knowledge, experience and

information

• Goodwill building

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