[arin-discuss] fee waivers

Steve Bertrand steve at ipv6canada.com
Tue Jun 22 23:10:44 EDT 2010


On 2010.06.22 22:58, marty at akamai.com wrote:
> 
> 
> But why for an IX? Nothing is free. Your members are all commercial
> entities, not non profits. Why can't they cough up a percentage of the fee?
> Looks like $100 per year per member Why should the rest of us subsidize your
> traffic exchange? It should be cheap, but free and then asking us to go
> along with a waiver for your space? I don't think that is reasonable.

Amen. Commercial or not. $1250 + $1200 (initial + 1 yr) should be easy
to finance for an IX. Although I've never worked in an IX, I can't see
that fee being a problem if it has legitimate participants.

> Do you have traffic stats publicly available for the IX?
> 
> BTW: You have 0 members in peeringdb. You may want to fix that by having all
> of your peers register. That is free.

...heh. cheers Marty,

Steve



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