YYCIX Internet Exchange Community Ltd. Board Meeting Date: November 30, 2021 6:00 pm MST Location: Ignite Technology (Calgary Office) Minutes by: Mark Cordingley Approved: pending Attendees In Person: Theo de Raadt, Bob Kitella, Mark Cordingley, Remote: Reid Fishler ... plus many guests 6:02 pm 1) Call To Order ================= Call to order by Bob Kitella. Seconded by Mark Cordingley 2) Introductions ================= Board of Directors: Mark Cordingley, Theo de Raadt, Reid Fishler, Bob Kitella Treasurer: Bob Kitella Network Operators: Theo de Raadt, Jason George, Job Snijders, Bob Kitella, Brock Richards, Evan Ricci 3) Board's update ================== - 3rd or 4th largest IXP in Canada - 6 data centres - Redundant fiber mesh with diverse physical paths, mostly 100G, steered with VXLAN - Still donation-funded (some NRC fees, no MRC port fees) - 6 new peers, 4 departed. (since the last AGM) - ~96,000 IPv4 prefixes 4) Action: 2019 AGM Minutes ============================ http://yycix.ca/minutes/20201125_AGM_Minutes.txt Colin Bodor motions to approve the previous minutes. Seconded by Evan Ricci and carried. 5) Special Thanks to our Supporters ==================================== Datahive, eStruxture Data Centers, Equinix, Rogers, Arrow Sebo Systems, City of Calgary, Internet Society, Flexoptix Notable donations: - Two fancy switches donated by Internet Society - Four 100G ER optics donated by Flexoptix - City fiber alignments to Arrow2 6) News ======= - Many fiber breaks in BC. Many transports down, many transits "facing east" The beautiful upside: ~1ms latency to local YYCIX peers rather than 40-180ms boomerang routes when fiber cuts happened in the days before YYCIX 6:14 pm 7) Treasurer's Update ====================== Bob Kitella delivers an update: Opening after AGM 2020: $10,405.91 Paypal funds transferred: $ 535.25 Donatons $ 9,000.00 Directors Ins. 2018-19 $ 1,756.00 Datacentre Expenses $ 3,912.07 Balance $14,273.09 Donations Pending: $ 3,700.00 Upcoming Expenses: Directors Ins. 2021-2022 $ 1,756.00 Expected Balance: $16,217.09 - Asking all peers to make some donation for this year Contributions Pachez, Cloudflare Oleg Maltsev, Martin Hannigan, Ron Arsenault Pending: Columbia Basin, CIRA, PSD, Netago One-time Installation fees Beanfield, Wi-Fibre We are failing to build a piggy bank More donations in lieu of port-fees would be appreciated Invoices can be issued upon request Installation fees are better than sending optics 8) Network Operator's Update ============================= Theo de Raadt delivers an update: - Upgraded Estruxture - CityHall link to 100G - Handled shutdown of Arrow1, all peers moved to Arrow2 - Upgraded Estruxture - Arrow2 link to 100G - Lost Datahive to Arrow1 link: Datahive lacks redundancy - Various peers upgraded 1->10G, 10->20G - Equinix expansion still pending Introduction to the Operators - Theo de Raadt, Bit of everything - Jason George, AS112 - Job Snijders, Route filtering - Bob Kitella, Web services - Brock Richards, Switch/Fabric expertise - Evan Ricci, help at Datahive, Rogers, and Arrow Other Infrastructure - 5 1U servers, 5 mini-PCs, and 1 VM - Some locations lack out-of-band management (has not been a concern) - Graphs accumulating data from 432 ports - RRD tables good enough for 1 year Spare Equipment - 9372 that could work in a pinch (far from ideal) Would prefer some 93180 spares - One 93240 - Staged some 1/10G optics at each location - Sufficient patch cables - Couple 40G and 10G-bidi spares to fix ISL - Two 100G 10km optics Rich collection of DNS services - AS112 - PCH D-root, E-root, Quad9 and everything else PCH provides - CIRA and D-ZONE - RIPE K-root - Verisign RIRS J-root and b.gtld-servers.net (.COM and .NET) - Google for 8.8.8.8 - Cloudflare carries ISC F-root and 1.1.1.1 - Afilias for .ORG, .INFO, etc - Netnod - RIPE auth might come Secure Route Filtering - Filters are built based upon route authorization databases 1. ARIN/RADB IRR route/route6 objects 2. RPKI ROA 3. ARIN WHOIS OriginAS http://www.arin.net/resources/originas.html AS with downstream members also require: 4. AS-SET object + http://perringdb.com/ "IRR Record" field - Without authorization, we do not re-announce learned routes - DEBUG TOOL: http://irrexplorer.nlnog.net/ {ASN or IP] - Route-servers support well-known BGP communities for Traffic engineering: https://yycix.ca/communities.html 9) Group Discussion ===================== Big shout out to everyone who has donated time, equipment, money. Thank-you! 6:42 pm 9) Adjournment ================ Bob Kitella motions to adjourn. Seconded by Mark Cordingley and Carried.