NANOG67 - Tipping point of community and sponsor bashing?

Wed Jun 15 11:21:00 UTC 2016

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 3:43 AM, Aled Morris <aledm at qix.co.uk> wrote:

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> Me too and I was confused about what the point of it was.
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> I had always assumed the customers of those IXs he singled out were
> generally happy with the service they were getting and the money they are
> paying.
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> Is Dave trying to say they are being duped?  Is he trying to identify a
> need for regulation?
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I was pointing out facts about IXPs that many did not know, including the
actual organizational structure.

I was also opining on how these IXPs could be better; mainly, how they
choose to spend money.

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> Perhaps Dave was advocating the SIX model and suggesting the customers of
> the existing exchanges should be looking to organise an alternative in
> their localities.
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Absolutely correct (which should answer Hank's question, as well).

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> Or perhaps this is a wakeup call for LoNAP and the smaller exchanges who
> "compete" with AMS-IX, DE-CIX and NetNod - stop trying to mimic their
> commercial models (big fees which pay for staff and marketing) and look
> instead at the lean SIX as the way of offering a service at a price
> competitive to transit.
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Also absolutely correct. I don't want to see them falling into a trap of
conflating marketing and outreach and/or offering an overly rich product
set at the cost of price and operational simplicity.

> Or was there a hidden message in Dave's presentation that I missed?
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Seems like you got it.

> Aled
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