Such an important observation. ISOC is increasingly involved in helping seed various IX projects particularly in the developing world. I hope that message is instilled loud and clear.
Christian Keith Mitchell wrote: >>> On 25/03/2015 12:14, "Jon Morby (FidoNet)" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Someone described it to me along the lines of ³kids leave >>>> Uni/College in Brighton and have jobs to go to Š they can either >>>> bugger off back up north and sign on up there, or they can try >>>> to make a go of something in Brighton / Hove / Worthing / etc >>>> where they¹ve been living for the last 3-4 years anyway and >>>> maybe get somewhere² Š the idea of the Digital Catapult and the >>>> BDX and Wired Sussex / et al is to try and see if we can help >>>> make that happen. > >> Indeed … but they have to start somewhere and at least they’re trying >> to do something - within the framework they have been given >> >> (yes it might be GiGo .. but at least they’re doing something .. and >> it might work if the planets align :) > > There is a chicken and egg relationship between Internet Exchange > infrastructure in a given region, and the community/ecosystem which > supports it, that it in turn supports. If one expects the > introduction of one to solve the lack of the other, it is doomed to > fail. Been there, seen that, multiple times. > > Community building is not something you can do in months, or even a > year, it requires a long-haul commitment, with a longer cycle than is > generally consistently deliverable from public servants of various flavours. > > This is no longer the 1990s where the density of IXPs per country was > low enough to convey a big enough first-mover advantage that the > infrastructure egg could shortcut the community chicken. Infrastructure > and community building need to go hand-in-hand. > > I'm not making any value-judgement of such initiatives (indeed wearing > my Open-IX hat more better IXPs are a good thing if done right), just > saying it's not a trivial undertaking. Good luck. > > Keith > -- Christian de Larrinaga FBCS, CITP, MCMA ------------------------- @ FirstHand ------------------------- +44 7989 386778 [email protected] -------------------------
