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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 21/03/2025 à 09:11, Nishal Goburdhan
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">On 20 Mar 2025, at 12:13, Sylvain BAYA via AF-IX wrote:
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">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.
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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.
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Hi Nishal,<br>
Thanks for your email!<br>
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Hey! brother, i didn't want to suggest that the <br>
membership of $Org1 *must* be the *sole* <br>
base to allow anyone to obtain a grant from <br>
$Org2 funding program...but, anyway, many <br>
thanks for pointing out my huge difficulty with <br>
English :-D ...i understand that i should make <br>
more efforts next time, when i would decide <br>
to post anything anywhere; where English is <br>
in use... :'-(<br>
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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.
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...sure! but you help with something. Do <br>
you have it? if the only help i can provide <br>
is to share our *little* experience; then <br>
that's how you can expect me to help, <br>
until someone teachs me the right way <br>
to say: <br>
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* it's a helpful opportunity for *some*;<br>
* don't hesitate to try too, we were funded!<br>
* feel free to read the story we wrote after <br>
concluding that SPI funded project;<br>
* by the way, deadline of the SPI funding <br>
has been extended!<br>
* spread the word to other IXP Operators, <br>
non-members, so they may want to join<br>
our IXPA. Why? because it's a place where <br>
things, of interest, are shared...<br>
* apply yourself! if it makes sense to you...<br>
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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.
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Thanks for taking time to reply to my email; <br>
brother :-) i really appreciate.<br>
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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\u2019t 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\u2019s history and mailing list archives, you will see a lot of that help asked and offered.
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It's good to know! i was not there at its very <br>
beginning :'-(<br>
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...this is actually something, i can happily do; <br>
when i get time and/or need to know what <br>
happened prior to my joining :-) <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://af-ix.net/pipermail/af-ix_af-ix.net/">https://af-ix.net/pipermail/af-ix_af-ix.net/</a><br>
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...also! i can not find emails posted before <br>
june 2024 :-/ what happened to them?<br>
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there\u2019s an entirely different - and credible - school of thought that regional IXAs make no sense, as we don\u2019t really need to divide the world (again) into RIR-defined categories to do good, but that\u2019s for a different day! :-)
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Happy to take part to the discussion on this <br>
topic, brother...sure, it should be started ;-)<br>
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Remain blessed; with all yours!<br>
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Shalom,<br>
--sb.<br>
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\u2014n.
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