Open-IX Association

Our Annual General Meeting has been announced!

Join us January 13th at 11 AM CST for an exciting update on our achievements, plans for the year ahead, and the opportunity to connect with fellow members.

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Nominations are open for the OIX Board Elections! Any member may nominate themselves or others, for more information see: https://www.oix.org/news-updates/call-candidates/

OIX member, Marco Paesani, will be attending and presenting: SRv6: New frontier for IXs at the European Peering Forum (EPF) in Bucharest next week. Reach out to him to connect! https://www.oix.org/, https://peering-forum.eu/2025/

OIX is seeking qualified candidates to fill the role of Administrative Director. For more information on this excellent opportunity please see: https://www.oix.org/news-updates/oix-administrator-position-opening/

OIX is seeking qualified candidates to fill the role of Administrative Director. For more information on this excellent opportunity please see: https://www.oix.org/news-updates/oix-administrator-position-opening/

The OIX-1 Technical requirements update has been completed. Thank you to the community for all of your input and feedback! See the updated requirements here:https://storage.googleapis.com/website-v4_media/documents/OIX-1_V3.1.pdf

It's almost time for NANOG 94! Chris Grundemann, Michael Still and Paul Emmons will be there, will you? See you in Denver CO June 9-11. https://nanog.org/events/nanog-94/

NANOG 94 NANOG is the professional association for Internet engineering, architecture and operations.

OIX Chair Chris Grundemann will be in Prague next week at AutoCon 3, This sold-out, network automation event, is May 26-30. For more info:

AutoCon 3 — Network Automation Forum The only conference that dares to keep asking Europe: Why haven’t we seen full adoption of network automation, yet? (Prague, May 2025)

OIX Chair Chris Grundemann will be attending the MIT CIO Symposium next week, May 19-20. See him in Cambridge, MA with other IT decision makers! For more information: https://mitcio.com/

MIT Sloan CIO Community MIT Sloan CIO Community is a Mighty Network. Join us to share your tips, tricks and stories with other members.

Ilissa Miller and Phil Koblence will be attending ITW May 5-7, https://www.internationaltelecomsweek.com/

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The OIX-1 (IX) Standard/Technical Requirements updates are now available for community review on the [email protected] mailing list - you can access the list via https://mailman.swcp.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oix-ddp or use [email protected]

OIX-DDP Info Page The OIX Document Development Process (OIX DDP) is the process by which current Standards and best current operational practices (BCOPs) for the operation of the Internet, and connected networks, are documented by the the Global Network Engineering Community (GNEC). These OIX documents are developed....