Ohio Ix

Attendees: Tim Berelsman, Doug Payauys, Marijan Adam, Kim Gerhart, Nancy Tiemeier, Brent Beatty, Luke Skidmore, Shelby Anderson, Paul Schopis, Brad Scott, Steve Steele, Roll Call

The Martini Group who has helped us with our website provided a brief presentation on what their business is and core competencies.

Membership Applications: No new applications at this time. We are waiting on 2 submissions.

Secretary Report: Minutes Approved

Treasurer’s Report

CTO Report

Marijan is checking count of SFP optics to see if we need more.  He will check with Mark at OARnet to get the cost of additional SFPs.

Peeringdb: Netgain and One IT are listed properly.  Everyone needs to update and add Ohio IX to their public peering.  The Ohio IX is updated as well.

Marijan wants to get some graphs going in the next month even if it is only for internal use.

Governance Committee

First Meeting of the Membership: Board Recommended Adoption of Amended and Restated Code of Regulations.

Code of Regulations

  1. Min 7, Max 11 Directors
  2. No Senior Member can have more than 1 employee or designee on the Board

Official Business – Board Recommendation of the Membership to

  • Approve Brent Beatty and Lynn Child fill the two vacant seats on the Initial Board
  1. Provided there are no nominations of others from the floor
  2. If no nominations approve by unanimous consent,
  3. If there are nominations conduct vote of the Senior Members

Marketing Committee

Annual Meeting: Ice Miller is providing the location.  We are meeting in the conference room for the meeting and will have the Open House in the lounge area.

Old Business: Documentation on donation of former Ohio IX assets and IP by Cologix.  Information has been sent to Tim.

Type II Trademark

Doug brought up putting electronic forms on the website and engaging the Martini Group.  We discussed that we need to make sure the forms are exactly the way we want them before paying for them to do the work. Brent and Marijan will work to make sure all of the information is complete.

New Business

Discuss various types of members and their preferred pricing structure

Next meeting: May 4th at 1:30 at Cologix.

Meeting Adjourned.

Respectfully submitted by Nancy Tiemeier