ICANN Accountability and the Transition of IANA Stewardship This session will examine the work that is currently being done to make ICANN more accountable to its stakeholders and to transition the IANA function stewardship away from the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (“NTIA”) and why these issues matter to everyone. The session will start with a description of the structure and functions performed by ICANN, including the IANA function. The role of ICANN in the Internet multi-stakeholder governance model will be discussed, and the involvement of governments in Internet governance will be addressed. This background will then be used as the launching point for a discussion of how the evolution of ICANN and the transition of the IANA function can affect the openness, security, stability and resiliency of the Internet.

1. Opening Remarks
ISCC Symposium

3. Internet
Exchange
Points“IXPs”

4. Benefits of IXPs
• Reduce Transit Costs
• Better control of routing
• Traffic stays local
•
Does not become subject to foreign policy
• Improve end-user experience
•
Lower Latency
•
Less jitter for real-time traffic (voice and video)

5. Canadian IXP Landscape – Past
•
Historically Canada had only 2 public peering
points (IXPs):
o Toronto Internet Exchange
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Canada’s largest IXP
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Founded in the late 90’s
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194 peers on over 300 peering ports
o Ottawa Internet Exchange
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Founded in 2000
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Relatively small

6. Need for #Change
•
Only 2 IXPs in Canada was NOT Acceptable
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We were behind other countries in the world
like:
– Cambodia (3)
– Phillipines (5)
– Poland (12)
– Singapore (3)
– And many other larger (and smaller) countries
•

7. Canadian Landscape Today
•
We still have the first 2 IXPs
– Toronto Internet Exchange (TorIX)
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Still the largest, approaching 200 Gbps at peak
– Ottawa Internet Exchange (OttIX)
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New IXPs have come to life:
– Vancouver Internet Exchange (VanIX)
– Manitoba Internet Exchange (MBIX)

8. Does is
really
matter?

9. End User Experience - Example
traceroute to 68.71.22.76 (68.71.22.76), 64
hops max, 52 byte packets
1
vl-10.macaroon.snickers.org (204.11.50.145) 0.65
2
te-1-4.dist01.tor1.prioritycolo.com (67.223.96.44
3
te-1-2.core01.tor1.prioritycolo.com (204.11.48.13
4

11. #CHANGE

12. We are living in a
“Post” World

20. Shaping the policy of
today prepares us for the
“post” world of
tomorrow

21. Thank-you !