robertshaw.info Telecoms, Internet and Convergence  03 July 2002 Demise of CIX and who speaks for ISPs? Perhaps I'm slow on the uptake but somehow I missed the demise of CIX last January according to the bottom of this press release from a new entitity called the United States Internet Service Provider Association, which according to the press release says "The US ISPA was created from the former Commercial Internet eXchange ('CIX'), which announced today that it was disbanding and being reconstituted with an entirely new membership group and Internet focus under the US ISPA name." It's the surprising end of an era. The Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX) was founded in 1991 to provide a commercial interconnection point so that commercial traffic could be exchanged without compromising the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) of NSFNET. Later, CIX became a trade association and lobbying force for ISPs in the US and it's somewhat surprising that it didn't manage to rally enough support to survive. In general, I've been surprised that ISPs have never been able to collectively front very effective trade associations that defend their interests, a topic which Scott Mace discusses in his two articles on Who Speaks for the ISPs?: part 1; part 2.  7:40:52 PM    Google It!     Quote of the Day Mark Twain. "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." [Quotes of the Day]  7:18:33 PM    Google It!     GAC materials from Bucharest posted Bret Fausett's icann.Blog notices it first: The ICANN Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) secretariat has now posted the materials it presented to the ICANN Board in Bucharest. The Bucharest communique is here, and the GAC's Statement on ICANN Reform is here. We've been asked by a number of people why, in Annex 2 of the GAC statement on Reform, there is the statement "The International Telecommunication Union disassociates itself from portions of this document." The explanation is that based on a number of discussions among Member States within the ITU on ICANN and ICANN reform, there are clearly a wide range of views. Under these circumstances, the ITU Secretariat has to reflect this and disassociate itself from a number of the substantive statements made in the GAC document.  These will be later specifically documented for the minutes of this GAC meeting.  7:12:28 PM    Google It!     Ebone network finally shuts down It seems that it's finally all over for Ebone.  5:49:05 AM    Google It!

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