Seattle Internet Exchange
Annual Meeting
April 17th, 2025
Teleconference
DRAFT Minutes by Chris Caputo

Attendees:

Night Airuta, Cofractal
Jerry Bacon, StarTouch, Inc.
Josh Black, Mountain West Technologies
Randy Bush, RGnet / PSGnet
Chris Caputo, SIX / Altopia
Brendan Carlson, Puget Sound Networks, LLC
Leighton Clarke, Atlas Networks
Mike Crute, Pomona Consulting
Duran Dunn, Mountain West Technologies
Shannon Flynn, Blackfoot Communications, Inc.
Patrick Gilmore, SIX
Erica Hughes Ehnert, SIX
Chandler Hume, Threshold Communications
Esther Jang, Seattle Community Network / Local Connectivity Lab
Chris Johnson, Gates Foundation
Jeremy Lumby, Minnesota VoIP
Wes Mills, Pudu LLC
Andrew Mitchell, Voipster Communications Inc.
Ken Mix, Clearfly Communications
Diana Moore, Andromeda Industries
Nikos Mouat, SIX / Mouat's Technology Services / WBL Services
Caleb Pal, Pal Communications
Amber Pham, NWAX
David Sinn, Pacific Northwest Gigapop
Michael Smith, SIX
Josh Van Dyk, Salish Networks
Chris Woodfield
Elijah Zeida, AirBridge Broadband
Ammar Zuberi, 617A Corporation

Call To Order and Welcome by Nikos Mouat at 3:03pm.

Operations have been smooth in the last year and not is not much new news.

Approval of minutes from last year's meeting moved by Randy Bush, and seconded by David Sinn. Passed by acclamation and without objection.

Operational update by Chris Caputo.

Major maintenance next Tuesday April 22nd to enable more than 16 circuits between the 7508 and 7512. Both switches will be reloaded.

The IPv4 CIDR change from /23 to /22 is underway and about 47% have renumbered. Next week the remaining networks will be contacted directly by email. To prevent blackholing of traffic, networks that have not renumbers will lose access to rs2 on April 28th and rs3 on May 12th.

Arista support has been extended to 2030 for the 7512 and for the line cards of the 7508.

The SIX currently consists of 358 member ASNs, with 420 routers. The drop in count from last year is due to changes at extensions resulting in disconnects. The Calgary extension is expected to return.

According to PeeringDB statistics, the SIX is the largest IXP in the United States by ASN count: https://peeringdb.mazzini.org/customers-us.html

If the SIX is working well for your network, make sure to recruit other networks to join, so that you can mutually benefit.

In addition to paid services provided by Chris Caputo, there are four volunteers on standby: Erica Hughes Ehnert, Nikos Mouat, Steve Perry, and new in the last year - Chris Woodfield. Appreciation to them!

Financial update by Chris Caputo.

A finances report was shared earlier this week and is available on the web: https://www.seattleix.net/docs/20250413_Finances.pdf

Chris believes the finances are in good shape and that the current fee structure continues to fund ongoing expenses.

Tax-exempt filing in May.

Chris reviewed replacement costs and insurance coverage.

Chris reviewed port availability on the core switches.

Items brought up by the members / Technical and Policy Q&A.

None.

Board of Directors Election.

Randy Bush moved to elect Erica Hughes Ehnert, Nikos Mouat, and Steve Perry to the Board seats up for election this year. Seconded by David Sinn. Passed by acclamation and without objection.

Adjourn at 3:22pm.