On Wednesday 24 October 2007 17:10, Reinier Battenberg wrote: > So, to get a Ubuntu repository, you would need a company > that wants to sponsor it. That is not necessary a > marketing thing, but could also be a company that needs > to update its 100 computers itself, and therefor has an > interest in a repository. Sharing would not add much to > that.
The deduction you make above reiterates Noah's e-mail in a previous post on this thread, which touches one of many areas to think about... It will cost money to install and maintain a successful repository. The repository requires Internet access. Each ISP "donating" some bandwidth to this end is complicated to deploy and maintain from a Layer 3 perspective. Transiting via one of the members over a private link or connecting the exchange point to the Internet costs money as well. If one of the members takes the initiative to beef up their connectivity to the exchange point as well as host and maintain a repository, they could offset it in many ways that would make it sustainable. Either that or start paying member fees to the UIXP to make this intrinsically viable to the same. Mark.
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