Enabling Internet Progress
Over the years AMS-IX has sponsored, facilitated or supported numerous projects, events and developments that helped progress the deployment of the Internet and its applications or the peering community in particular. We do this for "the Good of the Internet" and often no money is involved but rather an "in-kind" transaction or the facilitation of people or recources.
Examples are:
- Active participation in the diverse technical, peering and policy communities, such as RIPE, IETF, IEEE, ISOC, Euro-IX, Peering fora.
- Facilitation of the connection and or housing of route-servers and ccTld's, Internet research and statistics projects (Renesys, Caida, RIPE, ISC, PCH).
- Working on an Open Source basis as much as possible and contributing to relevant developments such as but not limited to our sFlow development.
- Facilitating the set-up of Internet Exchanges in several places around the world, including the CAR-IX which is actually operationally run by AMS-IX.
- Set up and sponsoring of ISP conferences, peering events and tools.