Netnod supports the OpenStand initiative

Stockholm 29 August 2012

On August 29, five leading global organisations jointly signed an agreement to affirm and adhere to a set of Principles in support of The Modern Paradigm for Standards; an open and collectively empowering model that will “help radically improve the way people around the world develop new technologies and innovate for humanity.”

Netnod, as the largest IXP in Scandinavia, and the operator of i.root-servers.org, has since its inception been a strong supporter of open standards. Netnod considers open processes for development of standards, free availability of standards, and reasonable licensing mechanisms to be essential for the continued innovation, operation, and sustainability of the Internet of today.

Netnod CEO Kurtis Lindqvist emphasised that “Netnod has a strong commitment to open processes, something we have demonstrated through our longstanding and active participation in the IETF. Therefore, we fully support the goals framed in the OpenStand initiative, and look forward to the continued engagement by the involved actors.”

About Netnod
Netnod is a not-for-profit, neutral and independent Internet infrastructure organisation, based in Sweden and owned by the TU foundation. Netnod provides DNS anycast and unicast slave services to TLDs worldwide through its highly respected and robust DNSNODE product. Netnod is also the proud operator of i.root-servers.net, one of the thirteen logical DNS root name servers in the world – a critical part of the Internet underlying infrastructure. This service is provided as a public service to the Internet community at-large, as part of Netnod’s goal to work for the “Good of the Internet”. Finally, Netnod operates six exchanges in five different cities in Sweden where Internet operators exchange traffic. The Netnod IX has among the highest amount of traffic per peer in Europe and is fully IPv6 enabled.