<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><br></div>Keith,<br><br>Open-IX is trade association. It operates the association on behalf of dues-paying members and provides a framework, funding and legal cover (G&A, anti-trust) for standards development related to interconnection; IXP and Data center specific. The members are primarily peering coordinators, their data center equivalents, data center operators, IXP operators and anyone with a reasonable interest in interconnection. The Association has made an anti-trust related NCRPA filing, is incorporated in Delaware, is approved by the USG under 501c6, is Open Stand compliant, is operating in compliance with the law as well as operating the first community organized neutral interconnection
conference in April 2015 <a href="http://www.open-ix.org/summit1/">http://www.open-ix.org/summit1/</a> Open-IX is driven by independent committees. <br><br></div><div>The internet has three buckets of operational importance; real estate, energy and interconnection. OIX was founded to focus on the third, currently competitively-lacking aspect of the network, Interconnection. Interconnection has lacked in data center standards to make it reliable and efficient. It's too concentrated in some aspects e.g. a single building failure can kill a whole region of the country. Who cares? Hopefully you do. <br><br>Standards typically drive markets in a direction the customers want (e.g. dog wagging the tail) and the Association underscores the competition aspect. You can see some of the results here: <a href="http://www.open-ix.org/certification/directory/">http://www.open-ix.org/certification/directory/</a> and you can view some of the effects on openness, transparency and competition created with OIX by clicking the compliance links on the right hand side of the page (pricing transparency, government request transparency, etc.)<br></div><div><br>ARINs focus is number resource policy. Open-IXs focus is interconnection standards.
The two will collide from time to time since numbers and ASNs are needed to operate interconnection, but from their respectful
corners. <br></div></div></div><br></div><div> Open-IX Website: <a href="http://www.open-ix.org/">http://www.open-ix.org/</a> <br></div><div> NCRPA filing: <a href="http://bit.ly/1tm0Ysu">http://bit.ly/1tm0Ysu</a><br></div><div> Open-IX 501c6 notice: <a href="http://bit.ly/144KIRh">http://bit.ly/144KIRh</a><br></div><div> Exempt Filing: <a href="http://bit.ly/13K1Hro">http://bit.ly/13K1Hro</a><br></div><div> Finance Reports: <a href="http://www.open-ix.org/finance">http://www.open-ix.org/finance</a><br></div><br><div><br></div><div>There's no reason or need to require 175 odd Open-IX
members to join an ARIN mailing list to express support in one fashion
or another or vice-versa. It seems like an artificial roadblock for each community. Many trade associations establish process for reliable input in compliance with their standards through MoUs or other agreements e.g. Metro Ethernet Forum and others. <br><br></div><div>I checked. You're right. You can't find the discussions. I'll ask the web team to make sure mailing list archives are easily findable on the website. Mea culpa, that's an oversight. We're growing rapidly and missed that unintentionally. In the meantime, this should work <a href="http://mailman.open-ix.org/pipermail/public/">http://mailman.open-ix.org/pipermail/public/</a><br><br></div><div>Hope that was helpful. Questions offline or --> over there at OIX. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,<br><br></div><div>Martin Hannigan (<a href="mailto:marty@open-ix.org">marty@open-ix.org</a>)<br></div><div>Open-IX Association/Treasurer<br><br><br><br></div><br></div>