On Thursday 25 October 2007 10:06, Mike Barnard wrote: > how possible is this? to have IXP members fork out a > small fee every month? it may assist in getting a number > of things at the IXP sorted out.
This is when things get political, and I take a step back :-). I'm only really good at moving the bits :-). But anyway, members would need to meet and figure out how best to achieve the objectives of the exchange point (fees, perhaps), but keep it reasonable enough so members don't think it's cheaper to peer privately or route local traffic via EU. Again, the politicians here really need to work these details out :-). > Or may be, have it run by a team of folks who bid for its > maintenance... That's one way of looking at it. > Once we have more private firms start connecting to the > IXP (as URA desires to) there is bound to be more work at > the IXP and a better management system. Depending on how political the exchange point would get, and how fast it grew, there would most likely be a review of who is allowed to connect, e.t.c. Again, the politics of it... I just like to see traffic :-). > Soon the GOVT, > having run their own fibre and setting up their own > network may want to plug into the IXP. Depends for what reason. Are they plugging in because they run a consumer-based IP network and have customers that would need to exchange traffic via the exchange point? Are they plugging in to sell bandwidth via the exchange point? Does the exchange point allow that, e.t.c.? > should the cable > finally get to UG from the coast of Mombasa, i would > think it plugging into the IXP gives all the ISPs a > central communication point. I don't see this happening. Any fibre carrying international traffic would end up in the controls of the telcos. A local-traffic-only exchange point wouldn't be the kind of place to land said cable. The closest the exchange point would get (depending on the MoU and AUP), would be private, back-to-back peering. > question that has always puzzled me is, 'how is the IXp > currently run? who runs it? who funds it? what happens > when the funds run out or the funder bails out?' You probably want to look at the (recent) archives of the UIXP mailing list. Cheers, Mark.
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