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Report on APIX meeting #4. What is APIX Forum?. An association of Internet Exchange Providers (IXP) in Asia-Pacific region Goals and Objectives To share information about technical, operational, and business issues and solutions regarding Internet Exchange. APIX Forum. Past meetings
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What is APIX Forum? • An association of Internet Exchange Providers (IXP) in Asia-Pacific region • Goals and Objectives • To share information about technical, operational, and business issues and solutions regarding Internet Exchange.
APIX Forum • Past meetings • Pre-meeting: Aug. 2009, at Beijing • Meeting #1: Mar. 2010, at Kuala Lumpur • Meeting #2: Aug. 2010, at Gold Coast • Meeting #3: Feb. 2011, at Hong Kong
Participants 12 IXPs in Asia Pacific, 1 IXP from other regions, 1 IXP association, and 1 Supporting Org. • BBIX (JP) • Dix-ie/NSPIXP3 (JP) • Equinix (Asia Pacific) • HKIX (HK) • JPIX (JP) • JPNAP (JP) • AMS-IX (NL) • Euro-IX (EU) • KINX(KR) • NIXI (IN) • NP-IX (NP) • SGIX (SG) • SOX (SG) • VNIX (VN) • BDIX(BD) could not join • APNIC
Agenda • Greeting, and Agenda Bashing • Roll call and IXP Update • traffic volume, recent topics. • impact of World IPv6 Day • Technical discussion • Japanese Earthquake and its impact on Internet • 100G Interoperability Test for Internet Exchange • Administrative topics • APIX bylaws • Wrap-up
Summary • Administrative Discussion • Shared the necessity of APIX bylaws. • Decided the schedule to achieve it by the next APIX meeting. • Will discuss continuously on the mailing list of APIX members. • Technical discussion • Impact of World IPv6 Day on IX was very little, due to scarce IPv6 deployment. • Japanese Earthquake and tsunami gave less damage on IX and DC, but backbone, submarine cables, and access lines were severely damaged. • 100G Interoperability test conducted by JPNAP, Meeting was successful.
Next meeting • To be determined… • probably in New Delhi, India, coexisting with APRICOT/APNIC meeting.
Acknowlegement • This meeting can be held by courtesy of APNIC.
Thank you very much! • Interim Co-Chairs: • Raphael Ho (Equinix) • Che-Hoo Cheng (HKIX) • Gaurab Raj Upadhaya (NP-IX) • Akira Kato (Dix-ie) • Katsuyasu Toyama (JPNAP)