[lac-discuss-en] [At-Large] Fw: Internet Traffic Exchanges - A Very Successful Model

[Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch]

Hi,

the importance of this work by the OECD transcends IXPs by far and is more relevant to the ALAC in another sense: it shows that the Internet model of multistakeholder governance works really well and is in no way a statu quo but a revolution still in motion. 

That said, the recent increase in attention to IXPs is also associated with the fact that some of them appear to be of a new breed, attracting content and cloud-based service providers as well as CDNs (content-distribution networks, such as Akamai). New models to finance the IXPs appear because shortening the links to them (making that traffic in-country) diminishes the bandwidth demand for cross-border traffic, thus increasing the ROI of the investments that ISPs must still make to gain connection and accesss to the IXP.

Little of that has bearing upon our ICANN remit directly but its vindication of the vitality of the Internet model is of high importance.

Yours,

Alejandro Pisanty

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Enviado el: miércoles, 24 de octubre de 2012 13:29
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Asunto: Re: [At-Large] Fw: Internet Traffic Exchanges - A Very Successful       Model

Thanks for this Carlton.

More attention needs to be paid to this issue.

Here in Canada CIRA is promoting the establishment of such exchanges and exchanges have been established by BC Net, a regional affiliate of CANARIE, Canada's high speed research network.

Gareth


On 2012-10-24, at 10:48 AM, Carlton Samuels wrote:

> ....peering agreements are instituted on a handshake.
>
> This should be of interest in areas of the world where the challenge to
> Internet for the many is access...and the [direct and indirect] costs of
> access.
>
> It makes the case for IXPs and their widespread proliferation. This is not
> to say there aren't increasingly contentious challenges on the horizon...
>
> http://oecdinsights.org/2012/10/22/internet-traffic-exchange-2-billion-users-and-its-done-on-a-handshake/
>
> - Carlton
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