[AFIX Members] Reminder : Applications Open for the 2025 Sustainable Peering Infrastructure Funding Program / Appel à Candidatures ouvertes pour le programme de financement d’infrastructures de peering durable 2025

[Sylvain BAYA]

Le 21/03/2025 à 09:11, Nishal Goburdhan a écrit :
> On 20 Mar 2025, at 12:13, Sylvain BAYA via AF-IX wrote:
>
>> Dear African Peering Community,
>>
>> ...i want to attest that these grant programs
>> (ISOC Foundation) are real opportunities, that
>> we as AfIX members should use as a mean to
>> encourage other IXP operators to join our
>> Association as new active members.
> you are mistaken.
>
> whilst i do not speak for either organisation, there is no - and should never be a - correlation between the membership of a voluntary association (such as af-ix) and the right of (in this case) an IX to receive funding from an *external* party, like the isoc foundation.
>

Hi Nishal,
Thanks for your email!

Hey! brother, i didn't want to suggest that the
membership of $Org1 *must* be the *sole*
base to allow anyone to obtain a grant from
$Org2 funding program...but, anyway, many
thanks for pointing out my huge difficulty with
English :-D ...i understand that i should make
more efforts next time, when i would decide
to post anything anywhere; where English is
in use... :'-(

> to do so - ie. to require that a recipient IX be an enforced member of a voluntary association, would be simply virtue-signalling, and a gross failure on the part of both af-ix and the isoc foundation.  there are *many* IXPs that are not a part of the IXPA in their region, for reasons that makes sense to them.  this does not make them any less of a credible IX than - imnsho,  organisation that seek said membership, simply for validation.  to think otherwise, is simply disingenuous.
>
> af-ix as a means of sharing information, and helping others is a good thing.
>

...sure! but you help with something. Do
you have it? if the only help i can provide
is to share our *little* experience; then
that's how you can expect me to help,
until someone teachs me the right way
to say:

   * it's a helpful opportunity for *some*;
   * don't hesitate to try too, we were funded!
   * feel free to read the story we wrote after
      concluding that SPI funded project;
   * by the way, deadline of the SPI funding
has been extended!
  * spread the word to other IXP Operators,
     non-members, so they may want to join
     our IXPA. Why? because it's a place where
     things, of interest, are shared...
   * apply yourself! if it makes sense to you...

> af-ix membership as an enforced means to receive funding (or accreditation) is not a good thing.
>
> i am less active here than i used to be here, because of personal time constraints.
>

Thanks for taking time to reply to my email;
brother :-) i really appreciate.

> but let me remind you that af-ix was started as a means to communicate between IXP operators with the intent to assist other IXPs in the region that were looking for help, and felt intimidated/didn’t know where/how to ask.  it *QUITE LITERALLY* was meant to be a mailing list where people could ask for help;  and if you go back into af-ix’s history and mailing list archives, you will see a lot of that help asked and offered.

It's good to know! i was not there at its very
beginning :'-(

...this is actually something, i can happily do;
when i get time and/or need to know what
happened prior to my joining :-)

https://af-ix.net/pipermail/af-ix_af-ix.net/

...also! i can not find emails posted before
june 2024 :-/ what happened to them?

> there’s an entirely different - and credible - school of thought that regional IXAs make no sense, as we don’t really need to divide the world (again) into RIR-defined categories to do good, but that’s for a different day!  :-)

Happy to take part to the discussion on this
topic, brother...sure, it should be started ;-)

Remain blessed; with all yours!

Shalom,
--sb.


> —n.

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