Is Bill Sandiford a member of the board of both CIRA[1] and AlbertaIX[5]? Since AlbertaIX has no peers [2,3] is CIRA now going to investigate options to help fund YYCIX which does have peers[3,4]?
References: [1] http://www.cira.ca/about-cira/about-the-board/meet-the-board/ [2] http://www.albertaix.ca/peers/ [3] https://prefix.pch.net/applications/ixpdir/ [4] http://yycix.ca/peers.html [5] http://www.tcpiputils.com/browse/as/54982 On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Jacques Latour <jacques.lat...@cira.ca>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 members of the community (Content delivery, ISP, government, > R&E, CIRA, others) together to start the development of a new IXP in > Calgary. > > Cybera being local, they took the lead in working with the community > members in setting up governance, technical architecture, location, etc... > CIRA actively participated in the various committees. > > CIRA is planning the deployment of equipment for the IXP, a .ca DNS > Anycast stack, NTP servers and space for M-Lab nodes. We also work with > PCH to have a PCH anycast stack installed in Calgary. We talked to Akamai > and Google to be part of the Calgary IXP. HE actually did build to Data > Hive (Preferred data center in Calgary). Doing our part in trying to get > as much content, ISP, eyeballs, core internet services to be present at > IXP. The AlbertaIX is cash poor at that moment in time so CIRA was looking > at options to fund equipment or provide start-up grants, nothing was done > up to now with respect to providing equipment or funds. > > Note: CIRA's job is not to go in and put a switch and leave. CIRA works > with the community to get the IXP up and running. We have criteria to > participate, the IXP must be a member based, vendor neutral non-profit > organization with a viable trusted community to operate and sustain an IXP. > CIRA is acting as a catalyst, not a doer. The community is the doer. Ask > the people in Winnipeg www.mbix.ca and Montreal qix.ca . We are planning > the launch of mbix this September as well. This is an example where the > IXP build was successful. > > Back to Calgary, something special occurred, while we were all working on > setting up AlbertaIX (we started fast but the pace slowed down > significantly), a new IXP came to 'life' YYCIX in Data Hive, yycix.ca. > Long story short, CIRA is waiting for things to settle before we continue > providing more support and invest in deployment our .CA infrastructure. > When the "dust" settles, we will deploy our .ca infrastructure and be a > member of the communities (peer). > > There's a chance we're going to have two IXPs in Calgary, hopefully they > would be in the same data center to leverage our investment, if we have > two, then it's going to make it confusing for the new potential peers to > pick the right one or both. > > All in all, CIRA's objective was to have 1 IXP in Calgary, we have one > now, perhaps 2 in the future, so mission accomplished. It's up to the > community to get their act together (no pun intended), and if they need our > help, then we're there to help with governance, funding, technical > expertise, etc... > > Also, we're doing our best with our limited resources, > > Jack > > (NOTE: English not my first language, if you're not sure what I mean, ask > me, don't assume) > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > 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 where previous > > >> efforts have struggled, providing hardware, accounts payable, legal, > > >> help with incorporation and forming sensible bylaws and stimulating > > >> local discussion and interest. My perspective is that they have done > > >> a great job in Calgary and Montréal. It sounds like the approach in > > >> Vancouver (engage with existing efforts, see where CIRA can help) is > > following the same path. > > >> > > > > > > What has CIRA done in Calgary? > > > > > CIRA has done a great job in Winnipeg and Montreal. Nothing in Calgary. > > >
