Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-23 Thread Niels Bakker
* wo...@pch.net (Bill Woodcock) [Wed 21 Aug 2013, 21:04 CEST]: [..] On Aug 21, 2013, at 10:27 AM, William F. Maton Sotomayor wma...@ottix.net wrote: [..] My anxiety lies with the future: Given everything that's already been written, are any of these IXPs capable of becoming self-sustaining in

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-23 Thread Jay Hanke
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Niels Bakker niels=na...@bakker.netwrote: Indeed. I think that ISPs who understand their business model well enough to understand the effect the IXP will have on their average-per-bit-delivery-cost is essential. I think it's also essential that they have

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-23 Thread Bill Reid
On 23/08/13 09:56, Mark Leonard wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Joe Abley jab...@hopcount.ca wrote: What CIRA is doing is providing support in the areas where previous efforts have struggled, providing hardware, accounts payable, legal, help with incorporation and forming sensible

RE: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-23 Thread Jacques Latour
- From: Bill Reid [mailto:b...@mbix.ca] Sent: August-23-13 11:55 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet On 23/08/13 09:56, Mark Leonard wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Joe Abley jab...@hopcount.ca wrote: What CIRA is doing is providing support in the areas

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-23 Thread Mark Leonard
To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet On 23/08/13 09:56, Mark Leonard wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Joe Abley jab...@hopcount.ca wrote: What CIRA is doing is providing support in the areas where previous efforts have struggled, providing hardware

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-23 Thread ML
On 8/23/2013 1:30 PM, Jacques Latour wrote: Bill, not true. Following on our vision for Canada to have an IXP in every major city, specifically for Calgary, CIRA worked with CYBERA to organize a town hall meeting in Calgary, on September 14, 2013. At the meeting, we had interested

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-22 Thread Matthew Petach
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 7:06 AM, joel jaeggli joe...@bogus.com wrote: On 8/21/13 6:56 AM, Randy Bush wrote: but how do you represent seattle colonolizing bc? keep your potatoes out of my pig. Ugh. Suddenly your talk of potatoes in pigs makes colon-olizing seem almost meaningful

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-21 Thread Christopher Morrell
I think CANIX in Toronto has been dead for years. I used to operate the switch for it in my days at UUNET in the 90s. In Montreal, is anyone at the Peer1 exchange other than Peer1? On 2013-08-20, at 23:14, Bill Woodcock wo...@pch.net wrote: On Aug 20, 2013, at 8:02 PM, Christopher Morrell

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-21 Thread Joe Abley
On 2013-08-21, at 6:40, Christopher Morrell christopher.morrell.na...@gmail.com wrote: I think CANIX in Toronto has been dead for years. I used to operate the switch for it in my days at UUNET in the 90s. Yes, very dead. In Montreal, is anyone at the Peer1 exchange other than Peer1? Peer1

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-21 Thread Randy Bush
In Montreal, is anyone at the Peer1 exchange other than Peer1? Peer1 exchanges are only open to Peer1 customers, I believe. At least, that's how it worked in Toronto the last time I looked. that is not an exchange. most isps have switches in their transit infrastructure. randy

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-21 Thread William F. Maton Sotomayor
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013, Jonathan Stewart wrote: You named 2 IXPs, and only got one right. A year ago, there were two active: TORIX in Toronto, and OTTIX in Ottawa. Ottawa is too close to Toronto to have an impact, so OTTIX has remained small. Having only 2 open That's not entirely accurate.

RE: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-21 Thread Jacques Latour
the poutine :-) From: Bill Woodcock [wo...@pch.net] Sent: August 20, 2013 11:14 PM To: North American Network Operators' Group Subject: Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet On Aug 20, 2013, at 8:02 PM, Christopher Morrell christopher.morrell.na...@gmail.com

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-21 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Aug 21, 2013, at 3:57 AM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: In Montreal, is anyone at the Peer1 exchange other than Peer1? Peer1 exchanges are only open to Peer1 customers, I believe. At least, that's how it worked in Toronto the last time I looked. that is not an exchange. most isps

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-21 Thread Randy Bush
Correct. The ones in black are exchanges, the ones in gray are things that someone asserted to have been exchanges, or asserted will be exchanges. glad it's all so black and white, well grey. :) as i use an old fashioned mail reader, it's all (set-foreground-color navajo white) to me.

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-21 Thread joel jaeggli
On 8/21/13 6:56 AM, Randy Bush wrote: but how do you represent seattle colonolizing bc? keep your potatoes out of my pig. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War randy

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-21 Thread William F. Maton Sotomayor
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013, Randy Bush wrote: In Montreal, is anyone at the Peer1 exchange other than Peer1? Peer1 exchanges are only open to Peer1 customers, I believe. At least, that's how it worked in Toronto the last time I looked. that is not an exchange. most isps have switches in their

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-21 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Aug 21, 2013, at 6:56 AM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: Correct. The ones in black are exchanges, the ones in gray are things that someone asserted to have been exchanges, or asserted will be exchanges. glad it's all so black and white, well grey. :) When different people are

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-21 Thread Clayton Zekelman
At 10:21 AM 21/08/2013, William F. Maton Sotomayor wrote The Peer1 setups remind me very much of what Group Telecom (defunct Canadian backbone provider) did in the very late 90's and the very early part of the last decade. They had them in nearly every city they had their facilities, but the

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-21 Thread Randy Bush
New IXP founders typically contact our staff wow! i did not know we had the ixp god here! lemme go back to my camera-ready dreadline. :) - Three or more participants - Shared layer-2 switch fabric across which participants peer with each other, exchanging customer routes - New

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-21 Thread William F. Maton Sotomayor
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013, Clayton Zekelman wrote: Just wondering aloud if an ISP that did have commercial interest could run a non-member driven exchange point successfully as long as they had pricing and policies that were similar to member driven exchange points. Vey interesting that you

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-21 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: New IXP founders typically contact our staff wow! i did not know we had the ixp god here! lemme go back to my camera-ready dreadline. :) - Three or more participants - Shared layer-2 switch fabric across which

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-21 Thread John Osmon
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:10:32PM -0400, William F. Maton Sotomayor wrote: On Wed, 21 Aug 2013, Clayton Zekelman wrote: Just wondering aloud if an ISP that did have commercial interest could run a non-member driven exchange point successfully as long as they had pricing and policies that

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-21 Thread William F. Maton Sotomayor
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013, Randy Bush wrote: and i would add carrier neutrality, i can haul fiber from anyone into the exchange. this is pretty critical in the exchanges where i have played. Facility neutrality especially. If the IXP is inside a non-neutral DC, it and its peers are always under

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-21 Thread bmanning
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:10:32PM -0400, William F. Maton Sotomayor wrote: On Wed, 21 Aug 2013, Clayton Zekelman wrote: Just wondering aloud if an ISP that did have commercial interest could run a non-member driven exchange point successfully as long as they had pricing and policies that

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-21 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Bill Woodcock wo...@pch.net On Aug 21, 2013, at 6:56 AM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: Correct. The ones in black are exchanges, the ones in gray are things that someone asserted to have been exchanges, or asserted will be exchanges. glad it's

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-21 Thread William F. Maton Sotomayor
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: IIRC, Albuquerque has NMIX which I think was setup as for-profit. (John Brown are you still here?) Well over a decade ago now, my recollection is fuzzy. I don't recall the reasoning in choosing for-profit over nont-for-profit. [NMIX

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-21 Thread Clayton Zekelman
At 01:15 PM 21/08/2013, William F. Maton Sotomayor wrote: Facility neutrality especially. If the IXP is inside a non-neutral DC, it and its peers are always under constant threat of being squeezed out or shutdown by any number of circumstances. If the co-lo business were separate from the

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-21 Thread Christopher Morrell
I would hope that at least the 3 largest cities in Canada (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver) should be able to sustain IXPs. Hopefully Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg too considering the size of their populations and their distance from the largest 3 cities. On 2013-08-21, at 13:27, William F.

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-21 Thread Bill Woodcock
Omnibus reply warning. Skip this one unless you're really into IXP trivia. On Aug 21, 2013, at 7:52 AM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: - New participation is not too rigorously constrained (at least a domestic ISP new market entrant should be able to participate) imiho, it is also nice

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-20 Thread Joe Abley
Hi Randy, On 2013-08-20, at 01:05, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: As you may know CIRA has been working with groups across Canada to establish new IXPs. wow! i thought there were a lot of ixps, torix, vantx, ... The TorIX has been the most significant exchange point with growth and

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-20 Thread Randy Bush
are these open, neutral, ixps, a la six etc? or big players trying to save the internet from itself? would some of the *local* providers in the areas who actually use the cira ixen care to report on the experience? ok, i have heard privately from folk who i respect. cira seems to be on the

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-20 Thread Harald Koch
On 20 August 2013 09:05, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: ok, i have heard privately from folk who i respect. cira seems to be on the up and up and doing good professional work. haha. yes, because Canadians are normally so sinister and nefarious...

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-20 Thread Peter Kristolaitis
On 08/20/2013 09:52 AM, Harald Koch wrote: On 20 August 2013 09:05, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: ok, i have heard privately from folk who i respect. cira seems to be on the up and up and doing good professional work. haha. yes, because Canadians are normally so sinister and nefarious...

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-20 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Harald Koch c...@pobox.com wrote: On 20 August 2013 09:05, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: ok, i have heard privately from folk who i respect. cira seems to be on the up and up and doing good professional work. haha. yes, because Canadians are normally so

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-20 Thread Barry Shein
On August 20, 2013 at 11:12 alte...@alter3d.ca (Peter Kristolaitis) wrote: On 08/20/2013 09:52 AM, Harald Koch wrote: On 20 August 2013 09:05, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: ok, i have heard privately from folk who i respect. cira seems to be on the up and up and doing good

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-20 Thread Clayton Zekelman
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Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-20 Thread Jonathan Stewart
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: As you may know CIRA has been working with groups across Canada to establish new IXPs. wow! i thought there were a lot of ixps, torix, vantx, ... Canada is geographically enormous. Long-haul transit is therefore costly, and

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-20 Thread Christopher Morrell
The old generation QIX (in Montreal) has been around a long time as an IXP where commercial players have been present. It was managed and operated by RISQ (a research network) but most of the members were commercial. The new generation of QIX is managed much like TorIX and continues to be

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-20 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Aug 20, 2013, at 8:02 PM, Christopher Morrell christopher.morrell.na...@gmail.com wrote: In Winnipeg, isn't there also the WPGIX? Do you have two competing IXPs in Winnipeg? There are nominally competing efforts in Winnipeg (MBIX and WPGIX), Calgary (YYCIX and AlbertaIX), Montreal (QIX

Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet

2013-08-19 Thread Randy Bush
As you may know CIRA has been working with groups across Canada to establish new IXPs. wow! i thought there were a lot of ixps, torix, vantx, ... are these open, neutral, ixps, a la six etc? or big players trying to save the internet from itself? would some of the *local* providers in the