[kictanet] [Skunkworks] Even Safaricom these days thinks KIXP is non-existent!

Brian Munyao Longwe blongwe at gmail.com
Sun Apr 8 19:47:53 EAT 2012


Well Peter,

As mentioned, about 7 or 8 years ago, when I was still on the board of
directors of TESPOK, I suggested a governance structure that gave KIXP
independence from TESPOK, it's 'mother' institution. The main rationale
here was to ensure that KIXP maintains a separate, independent existence,
regardless of what happened to TESPOK.

This was during a TESPOK strategy meeting where the key message was "The
African ISP is dead, long live the African ISP" based on a paper by Russell
Southwood of Balancing Act Africa. The essence of which was that with the
onslaught of mobile operators going into internet access provision, the
only way that ISPs would survive would be through consolidation via
mergers/acquisition or a complete redefinition of business focus and
strategy. What was evident to me (but seemingly not to others) was that as
the ISP industry transformed, there would be fewer players, and thus, less
democracy - especially with regards to governance issues.

At the same time, KIXP was attracting plenty of interest from non-ISPs and
already had non-ISP members such as KENIC, KRA and others - it was evident
that the interest would continue, especially as the sector evolved with
greater participation from content creators, hosting companies,
data-centres etc... KIXP would become the de-facto facility for providing
industry actors with data interconnection and interchange.

For those of you unfamiliar with KIXP's history - we had to register a
company KIXP Ltd, and file for an IXP license from CCK, in order to become
operational after the forced closure of the IXP in 2000. My proposal was
that KIXP be given full autonomy, have a board of directors appointed by
members in full standing, and be run as a business, similar to LINX in the
UK, and other successful IXPs around the world. As part of my proposals I
shared the attached diagram (which I have just found in my archives). The
Board would identify and appoint a CEO, who would then identify suitable
staff to meet organisational growth. Being a business, some implied issues
were self-sustainability, a business plan with clear growth, and social or
financial returns for the 'shareholders'.

My proposals fell upon deaf ears and it is sad for me now to see a frail
and seemingly weak KIXP that cannot seem to consistently engage newcomers
to the industry with the benefits of local traffic exchange.

A simple question - how many of the TEAMs/SEACOM/EASSY bandwidth-holders
are peering at KIXP? As mentioned by someone else, some of our traffic is
being exchanged in exotic places like Mumbai, London etc...

So, I continue shaking my head...

Brian



On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu at gmail.com> wrote:

> @Brian, would you mind sharing these recommendations? It doesn't hurt to
> know :-)
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I had a conversation a couple of weeks ago with some folk about the
>> governance of KIXP. I made some recommendations about 8yrs ago regarding
>> the setup of a structure that would allow for the unfettered growth and
>> resilience of the exchange. It is sad that individuals at that time who
>> wanted to control the exchange resisted these. Now, when we are faced with
>> these, and other symptoms of the root cause, some of us can only shake our
>> heads. (Yes, I am doing a lot of that lately)
>>
>> Pole kwetu,
>>
>> Mblayo
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Kinuthia Ngugi <kinuthia.ngugi at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I think this is problem is recent and serious! all this easter weekend
>>> i've been having timeouts while browsing local sites, yet sites outside .ke
>>> are loading normally....
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Okay. In the same breath, would you be able to fix the routing of the
>>>> 197.x.x.x towards 196.200.26.x, please??
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 19:49, John Gitau <jgitau at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I think we can easily fix this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>>
>>>>> On 7 Apr 2012, at 18:41, Brian Ngure <brian at pixie.co.ke> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I think I mentioned this some time ago. Kenyan ISPs don't know KIXP
>>>>> exists.
>>>>>
>>>>> Or maybe they get more $$ by not using KIXP somehow?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regard's
>>>>>
>>>>> Brian Ngure
>>>>>
>>>>> On 7 Apr 2012 14:14, "Odhiambo Washington" <odhiambo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>  WAN Configuration Type
>>>>>>  Connection Type      3G/UMTS
>>>>>>  Login Status            Connected
>>>>>>  Signal Status           -40 DBm
>>>>>>  Connection Uptime   17:19:48
>>>>>>  IP Address*               41.81.20.209 *
>>>>>>  Subnet Mask            255.255.255.255
>>>>>>  Gateway                  10.64.64.64
>>>>>>  DNS 1                     196.201.208.2
>>>>>>  DNS 2                     209.244.0.3
>>>>>>  DNS 3
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> C:\Users\Washington>tracert 196.200.26.114
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tracing route to 196.200.26.114.accesskenya.com [196.200.26.114]
>>>>>> over a maximum of 30 hops:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   1    <1 ms    <1 ms     2 ms  DD-WRT [192.168.1.1]
>>>>>>   2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
>>>>>>   3    66 ms    78 ms    68 ms  196.201.217.2
>>>>>>   4    66 ms    78 ms   108 ms  196.201.217.3
>>>>>>   5   107 ms    68 ms    78 ms  192.168.161.110
>>>>>>   6   137 ms   229 ms   138 ms  192.168.128.134
>>>>>>   7   108 ms    70 ms    77 ms  192.168.128.5
>>>>>>   8   145 ms    78 ms    78 ms  192.168.128.5
>>>>>>   9   159 ms    78 ms    78 ms  192.168.153.13
>>>>>>  10    78 ms    78 ms    78 ms  192.168.128.77
>>>>>>  11   158 ms   158 ms   148 ms  if-4-2-2.core1.MLV-Mumbai.as6453.net
>>>>>> [209.58.105.25]
>>>>>>  12    98 ms   128 ms   168 ms  196.201.208.43
>>>>>>  13   158 ms   148 ms   148 ms  TenGE-2-1-BP_CORE01.accesskenya.com[196.207.31.146]
>>>>>>  14   210 ms   217 ms   218 ms  ix-4-1-1.core1.MLV-Mumbai.as6453.net[209.58.105.142]
>>>>>>  15  1178 ms   196 ms   158 ms  196.200.26.114.accesskenya.com[196.200.26.114]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Trace complete.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>> Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
>>>>>> Nairobi,KE
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Brian Munyao Longwe
e-mail: blongwe at gmail.com
cell:  +254715964281
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