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Session:       APNIC Member Meeting
Date:          Friday 3 March 2006
Time:          2.00pm

Presentation:  IX SIG report
Presenter:     Che-Hoo Cheng
			       
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PAUL WILSON:

Che-Hoo is the co-chair of the IX SIG.

CHE-HOO CHENG:

Thanks to Philip. He gives me the opportunity to take the souvenir.
In the last few meetings, I haven't got any souvenir.

In fact, I will only do a one-minute report.

PAUL WILSON:

You think you should get a souvenir for that?

CHE-HOO CHENG:

Yeah. Of course!

The IX SIG. Well, we did the meeting yesterday afternoon. We have
two sessions because we have many, many presentations. And, well,
as I mentioned, our chair is Philip Smith. He has gone already. And
I am the co-chair and, if you want to reach us, you can use this
e-mail address but, well, there are a lot of spam mails so anyway...
I'll try my best to filter the spam.

As for the mailing list, you can do this but this mailing list is
not very active. So I encourage you guys to subscribe and then
discuss actively all the issues related to IX.

In the first session, we mainly have presentations from our European
friends. Such as Nigel from LINX, Jordi from Euro6IX and Serge from
Euro-IX. Euro-IX is not an IX, it's an IX association, I think,
yeah. And Serge also kindly helped to chair a panel discussion about
IX P cooperation. And we have five panel speakers, representing
five regions. And it took about 30 minutes. And I think the time
was not enough for that kind of discussion. But at least, I think,
that's a good start. Maybe in the next meeting, we can, you know,
allocate more time for that discussion.

And for the second session - actually, I chaired the session. And
we had nine presentations. Each presentation only had 10 minutes.
And I was very nervous, actually, to push people to speak fast so,
you know, they finished the presentation within 10 minutes. I did
a good job. Seven of the presentations actually were from the IX
operators from this region and two are from Europe, our friends
from Europe.

Going forward, I think I would like to encourage the IX operators
in this region to do presentations, because this, you know, this
is APNIC meeting. For this time, actually, you know, we have
presentations from very diversified IXs like, you know, IX with
very high-volume traffic such as those in Japan and also those from
the developing countries like NPIX and we also had presentations
from relatively new set-up like BBIX from Japan and also NIXI from
India. It was a very good start and I hope they will come back again
to do updates.

About the participants. We had about 60 for the first session, 80
for the second session. We did better than Policy SIG. And, as you
can see, you know, we did very good time control.

OK. That's enough for taking the souvenir, I think.

PAUL WILSON:

I think it is.

APPLAUSE

Thanks, Che-Hoo. It's interesting that the IX SIG is growing and
becoming quite a popular SIG, even starting to equal the Policy SIG
in length and popularity.