APIX forum

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APIX forum

• Katsuyasu Toyama (JPNAP)
• on behalf of all the volunteers of this activity

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What is APIX forum?

• Asia-Pacific Internet Exchange forum
• A forum of Internet Exchange Providers in
  Asia-Pacific region
• To share information about technical,
  operational, and business issues and solutions
  regarding Internet Exchange

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Background

• Internet Exchanges have become very important
  infrastructure for the Internet.
• Many Internet Exchanges in Asia-Pacific region.
• But no forum of Internet Exchange Providers in
  Asia-Pacific, to share information regarding IX
  technology, operation, business, and so on.
• comparing to Euro-ix in Europe

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Pre-meeting

• Volunteers from IXPs gathered on Aug. 25, 2009.
• China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Nepal, Singapore
• Advisors from APNIC
• Discussed whether this activity is necessary.
• We agreed to step forward.

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Scope(topics to be discussed in APIX forum)

• exchange point architecture
• technologies for internet exchanges
• operational issues
• requests to vendors
• traffic
• trend, analysis, projection, and so on

• tools
• standardization
• peering issues
• education
• Research and Development

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Next step

• Planning the first meeting in Kuala Lumpur on
  March 2010
• along with APRICOT
• small-start
• from now to March 2010
• discuss on APIX mailing list
• charter, scope, membership,
• prepare the first meeting

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• Thank you!
• Any questions or comments?

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• Supplement

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Difference from IX-SIG

• APIX forum
• aimed only for information sharing among the
  Internet Exchange Providers in mainly
  Asia-Pacific region.
• IX-SIG
• open for service providers, content providers,
  and others who are interested in exchange points.
  
• Just like Euro-IX forum and EIX working group in
  RIPE

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Expected participants

• Internet Exchange Providers in Asia-Pacific
  region.