Re: NANOG67 - Tipping point of community and sponsor bashing?

[Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>]

On 6/15/16 4:03 PM, Bill Woodcock wrote:
> There’s a difference between the cost and the product.  As regards the cost, Arnold is exactly right.  Across the many 
> hundreds of exchanges that we’ve worked with over the past 22 years, our observation has been that, at a rough average, 
> most IXPs spend 45% of their first-year effort on location selection, 45% on governance definition and establishment, 
> and 10% on technical decisions and implementation.  But the total effort and the governance portion both increase 
> drastically for those that choose to handle money; at a very, very rough average, about four-fold.  In subsequent 
> years, location selection generally drops away to near zero, except in cases like the JINX, and technical work dips for 
> the first couple of years, and then spikes once every three years or so as switches are replaced and new configs are 
> needed.  Many exchanges have an annual in-person meeting where elections are conducted and policy changes ratified, so 
> that typically becomes the largest ongoing expense, as Arnold implies.

Why do IXes seek to create a bureaucracy that needs to be fed increasing 
sums of money?

~Seth