Organisation

Organisation

Governance Structure

The current official legal entities of AMS-IX are the Amsterdam Internet Exchange Association and the limited corporation Amsterdam Internet Exchange B.V. Both are commonly referred to by the acronym AMS-IX.

As both legal entities are obliged to have two formal stakeholder meetings per year, the General Assembly of the Association and the Shareholders Meeting of the Corporation, AMS-IX combines these meetings into one.

The same principle applies to the Executive Board of the Association and the Supervisory board of the Corporation. They consist of the same elected people and are simply called the Board.

The management of the corporation reports to the board on a quarterly basis. The board reports to the assembly/shareholders twice a year in the General Meeting (GM).

Decision making process

The majority of decisions at AMS-IX are made by the AMS-IX BV within the boundaries of the Association and/or Board approved annual and long term plans.

The annual plan and budget, as well as items outside of the scope relating to management control, are approved by the Executive Board in Board Meetings. In these meetings the members of the executive board and AMS-IX B.V. management (CEO, CTO, CMO and CFO) are present. The Board meetings act as both the Associations Executive Board meetings as well as the Companies Supervisory Board meetings. Board elections are held annually during the member/shareholder meeting for the 5 board seats. The election is on a rolling basis, each year one or more seats have to be (re)filled.

A General Meeting, in which all members have a seat, is held twice a year. Members are informed of strategic changes which are part of the AMS-IX companies strategy. The strategy is detailed in an annually updated Long Term Strategic plan. The strategic plan has to be approved by the membership by a majority vote and is the main way to influence the decision making process. The other main voting item at the GM is the Board election. All members at AMS-IX have equal voting rights (on ASN/legal entity basis).

A Technical Meeting convenes twice per year in conjunction with the General meeting and advises both the General Meeting and the Executive Board on technical aspects.

Annual Reports

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AMS-IX B.V.

„Quality IP exchange, peering value beyond measure”

Organisation

Organisation

Governance Structure

Decision making process

Annual Reports