IX-F document on successful IXP models

The international Internet eXchange Federation, which is the global federation for all regional IXP associations, has published a document outlining known successful IXP models, based on experience of existing IXPs around the world. 

The document outlines the succesful role IXPs have played in the development of the Internet in many countries around the world, by facilitating faster, more robust, and cheaper Internet connectivity. It notes that there where IXPs do not yet exist, that many stakeholders will try and address the gap, among them policy-makers and regulators.

It talks about the role of regulation and describes models that have proven to be succesful in the past. It outlines that the regulatory environments that have been most favorable to successful IXPs are ones where no or open regulation is in place in the communications market. In some countries, government agencies have helped develop IXPs, but typically they have not managed or operated them.

Further, that what is needed to make an IXP sustainable and a success is the same the world over: trust and community building.

Netnod, is a member or Euro-IX, one of the IX-F IXP associations, and has contributed to this document.

Read the document Succesful IXP models here.

The IXP Associations that form IX-F are APIX (Asia Pacific Internet Exchange Association), LAC-IX (Latin America & Caribbean Internet Exchange Association), Euro-IX (European Internet Exchange Association), and the African Internet Exchange Association (Af-IX)