How to Apply Membership?

 Membership    Documents needed and Peering Agreement    Where to deliver the application?  

If your organisation is interested in joining FICIX, please read the following information carefully before sending an application.

Any legally competent society or foundation that approves of the purpose of the association and notifies that it satisfies the terms and conditions for membership and undertakes to comply with the same may be accepted as a full member of the association.

The association does not accept individuals as members. Applications for membership filed by prospective members shall be granted or denied by the executive board of the association.

Terms and conditions of membership:

 1. Each member is required to connect at least two (2) FICIX internetworking points.
2. The members shall agree upon exchange of traffic by bilateral agreements.
3. Only traffic from networks routed by the member itself may be transferred
over the internetworking point. The access point must not be used as a default
route or for forwarding transit traffic.
 4. Each member shall make or keep IP network services freely available through
the data network that has been selected for connection to access points.
 5. No member may be engaged in any activity that is in conflict with Finnish
legislation or EU regulations.
 6. No member may cause any interference in the operation of the access points for
interconnecting traffic.
 7. Each member shall belong to some regional Internet register (RIR), such as RIPE NCC.
 8. Each member shall have a registered AS number and the publicised network data must be registered in the RIR database.
 9. Each member shall make its contact details available to the other members of the
Association and accept that they are made public on the Association's membership pages.
 10. Each member shall hold in confidence any information on the other members that may
come to its attention through the activities of the Association.
 11. Each member shall accept the e-mail as a channel for communications in matters related to the Association.
 12. Each member shall transmit and receive via the access points for interconnecting traffic
at its own risk.
 13. Any disputes arising between the Association and members should primarily be settled
by mutual negotiations or through arbitration by the Finnish Bar Association.

When applying the membership, the applicant is committed to complying the rules of the FICIX association. The rules should be read carefully before making an application. Furthermore, the applicant is required to deliver the contact information by using FICIX's contact template.

  How to apply membership (txt)
  The rules of FICIX association (pdf)
  Contact template (txt)
  Membership application (txt)
  Price list

Peering

General FICIX peering agreement (doc)
General FICIX peering agreement (txt)

Peering Etiquette version 1.0(doc)
Peering Etiquette version 1.0(txt)

Where to deliver the application?

The application must be signed by a procuration holder(s) of the applicant. The contact information shall be sent to FICIX association using the contact template to the following email address: contact@ficix.fi

The membership application is sent to the following address:

FICIX ry
P.O.Box 146
00181 Helsinki
Finland