YYCIX Internet Exchange Community Ltd.
Annual General Meeting
Date: November 25th, 2020 6:00 pm MDT
Location: Virtual Online Conference
Minutes by: Mark Cordingley
Document status: DRAFT

In person:
Theo de Raadt, Mark Cordingley

Via Online Conference/phone: 
Bob Kitella - 1645
Reid Fishler - 6939
Oleg Maltsev - 398358
Dave Basto - 16569
Tyler Andruschak - 16569
Mark Leonard -396302
Tomas Florian - 18638
Mark Murray
Inderjodh Soora - 20119
Sean McKenzie - 46920
Andrew Klaus - YEGIX
Colin Bodor - 55016
Richard Perritt - 399067
Stephen Fulton - 5645
Jordan Eliason - 53349
Brock Richards - 393891
Richard Klinger - 6509
Catch Engineering - 62993
... plus many guests without updated names

6:05 pm
1) Call To Order
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Call to order by Theo de Raadt. Seconded by Mark Cordingley

We will go through the slide deck with intermittant pauses to provide
an opportunity for discussion


2) Introductions
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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
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- 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
- 13 new peers, 1 departed. (during the last year)
- ~84,000 IPv4 prefixes
- Akamai left, hopefully returning next year
- Bell's Q9-530 becomes Equinix CL3
- Will upgrade switches & links to SE Calgary
- New POP: Arrow2 in NE Calgary

Question:

Colin Bodor: How will Equinix tie in or work with the IX here?

Theo: We don't yet know exactly what they are going to do here in
Calgary. We expect it will follow what has been done in other cities.


4) Special Thanks to our Supporters
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Datahive, eStruxture Data Centers, Equinix, Rogers, Arrow
Sebo Systems, City of Calgary, cira, Packet Clearing House


5) Action: 2019 AGM Minutes
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https://yycix.ca/minutes/20191022_AGM_Minutes.txt

Colin Bodor motions to approve previous 2019 AGM minutes. Seconded by
Bob Kitella and carried.

6) Treasurer's Update
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Bob Kitella delivers an update:
    - All income was donations
    - Donations in lieu of port-fees would be very much appreciated
	  (an invoice for donation can be provided)

Opening after AGM 2019:		$ 2,201.61
Paypal funds transferred:	$   545.10
Donatons			$ 9,200.00
Directors Ins. 2018-19		$ 1,403.00
Datacentre Expenses		$ 2,034.81
Balance 			$10,405.91

Upcoming Expenses:
Directors Ins. 2020-2021	$ 1,600.00
ARIN fees			$   600.00 USD

Optional annual invoices:
- Netago, Pachez, Nutrien, CANARIE,
  Columbia Basin, CIRA, (Xplornet on the way)

One-time Installation fees
- Citywest, PSD, (Uniserve on the way)

More donation in lieu of port-fees would be appreciated
Invoices can be issued upon requested
Installation fees are better than sending optics

Question:
Mark Leonard: Is there a target level of funds that YYCIX is looking for.

Theo: I think we are doing just fine. The annual mandatory fees are
around $3,000 per year so having a nice buffer above that is good. We
may also have something breaks that requires replacement. We should
also plan for the future and the 100G optics will be our biggest
challenge as we start adding long distance 100G optics. They are very
expensive and we are going to have to do some sparing. This will be
the main strategy for switches and optics is to have spares on hand.

7) Network Operator's Update
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Theo de Raadt delivers an update:
    - Added more inter-switch links, and upgrades to 100G
    - Several peers upgraded 1->10G, 10->20G
    - Helped with some of the DNS servers
    - Endless discussions about building for future capacity requirements
	
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
	- 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
	- Stage some 1/10G optics at each location
	- Stage a few patch cables
	- Couple 40G and 10G-bidi spares to fix ISL

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
	- Filias for .ORG, .INFO, etc
	- Netnod (coming soon)
		
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
		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

8) Group Discussion
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Big shout out to everyone who has donated time, equipment, money.
Thank-you!
	
	
7:02 pm
9) Adjournment
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Bob Kitella motions to adjourn. Seconded by 
Theo and Reid and Carried.