CIRA is very pleased that in just over two years, five new IXPs have been established in Canada.<\/p>\n
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This post originally appeared on the\u00a0IXPToolkit website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n There has been rapid Internet exchange point (IXP) development in Canada in recent years and now the first national IXP workshop will be held in November, immediately following the annual Canadian ISP Summit which is being held November 7 to 9.<\/p>\n For many years, IXP development in Canada lagged behind that of many countries because of the close proximity of Canada to US IXPs in such cities as Seattle, Chicago and New York.\u00a0In 2012, there were only two IXPs in Canada.\u00a0The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), the not-for-profit operator of the .CA ccTLD, decided that it would work to help remedy the situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n As a ccTLD operator, CIRA was uniquely positioned to take on this role.\u00a0It is a \u2018neutral player’ in an environment that often requires industry competitors such as ISPs to cooperate for mutual benefit. CIRA has significant technical knowledge thanks to years of experience running its own network for its nameservers as well as its own anycast network.\u00a0It also had contacts in the industry, including equipment vendors and CDN providers.\u00a0<\/p>\n As a not-for-profit, CIRA has experience with the governance aspects of setting up and running not-for-profit entities, which is the most common governance model for Canadian IXPs.\u00a0<\/p>\n Finally, CIRA had resources to contribute on a strategic basis so that newly created entities could get over the bumps of initial start-up costs.\u00a0CIRA knew from its own experience that any new IXP would need to be created and \u2018owned’ by the local community and CIRA always saw its role as being limited to that of a catalyst, to working with local groups, helping them to realize their vision.<\/p>\n CIRA is very pleased that in just over two years, five new IXPs have been established. There are now exchanges in Vancouver British Columbia, (VANIX), Calgary Alberta (YYCIX), Winnipeg Manitoba (MBIX), Montreal, Quebec (\u00c9change Internet de Montr\u00e9al\u00a0QIX), and Halifax, Nova Scotia (HFXIX).\u00a0CIRA staff have joined the boards of many of these IXPs, and in doing so have worked to establish a broader country-wide community for IXPs.<\/p>\n The next logical step in this journey is to discuss the formation of a Canadian IXP association \u2013 \u2018CA-IX’.\u00a0<\/p>\n This fall CIRA will be hosting the CA-IX workshop on November 10th, 2016, at the\u00a0Hilton Toronto. The session will start at 9AM and finish by 4PM. This event follows the\u00a0Canadian ISP Summit.\u00a0This workshop will provide an opportunity for Canadian IXs to meet and discuss issues of common concern as well as debate what CA-IX might look like: its mission, mandate and goals.\u00a0 Speakers will include representatives from RIPE, TORIX and CIRA.<\/p>\n An invitation with more details will follow in the coming weeks. For those who might wish to be kept informed about this, you will need to send an email\u00a0support@torix.ca<\/a>\u00a0to add them to the\u00a0ixp@ca-ix.ca<\/a>\u00a0mailing list. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CIRA is very pleased that in just over two years, five new IXPs have been established in Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3005,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"slim_seo":{"title":"IXPs in Canada \u2013 Building a community, working together - CIRA","description":"CIRA is very pleased that in just over two years, five new IXPs have been established in Canada. This post originally appeared on the\u00a0 IXPToolkit website . Ther"},"footnotes":""},"topic":[1066],"class_list":["post-42401","cira_news","type-cira_news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cira_news_type-cira-news-type-blogue","cira_topic-cira-topic-cybersecurite","cira_author-allanmacgillivray-fr"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg.cira.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/cira\/v1\/news\/42401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg.cira.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/cira\/v1\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg.cira.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cira_news"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg.cira.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/cira\/v1\/news\/42401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg.cira.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg.cira.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cira_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg.cira.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/cira\/v1\/topic?post=42401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}