CAIP Membership

CAIP membership comprises a large and ever-growing group commercial Internet service providers (ISP's) as well as enterprises interested or involved, directly or indirectly, in the industry of Internet service provisioning.

• Representation - a single national voice, strengthened through integration with CATAAlliance
• Discussion and input into the positions CAIP takes on national regulatory and public policy issues
• Advocacy - CAIP fighting on behalf of Canadian ISPs for access, copyright issues, security and privacy issues, and e-commerce guidelines
• Access to information regarding policy and regulatory issues
• CAIP code of conduct
  
  

Membership benefits:

• Use of CAIP logo on your website
• Access to the members' directory and affinity programs
• Participation on the CAIP members' listserv (e-mail type chatline) where members discuss relevant issues amongst themselves.
• Receipt of all CAIP documentation including; Newsletter updates and commentary, product and services bulletins, advocacy alerts
• Discounts on events, conferences through the CATAAlliance network
• Opportunity to participate in expert committees

CAIP Membership Options

Internet Provider - Corporate Member

Traditionally, a CAIP Internet Provider member was defined as an access service provider who provides Internet access and services to residential and business clients. CAIP recognizes, however, that the landscape of the Internet industry is constantly changing, and new sectors of the industry continue to emerge.  CAIP welcomes these new sectors and includes them in our expanded membership criteria.

CAIP has attempted to provide examples of these sectors of the industry.  Any business that is identified in this non-exclusive list would be eligible for membership in CAIP.

1. Access Service Providers - Providers of IP transport services or providers of a gateway for transporting IP packets to the worldwide Internet.
2. Collocation Service Providers - Providers of collocation services for Internet application environments of Internet Data centers, providing clients with physical facilities (space, power, security, etc) and Internet connectivity for their application servers.
3. Managed Services Providers - Providers of the next level of service beyond collocation service providers, providing end-to-end infrastructure management services primarily to business clients. Managed service providers typically own the web servers customers' applications reside on, as opposed to collocation service providers who house customer-owned servers.
4. Voice over Internet Protocol Providers - Providers of voice communications over IP networks. 
5. Web Hosting Service Providers - Web Hosting Service Providers offer hosting of low complexity web sites, typically on shared infrastructure, with lower monthly rates. Internet connectivity is typically provided as part of the bundled web hosting service.
6. Commerce Service Providers - A specialty Web Hoster, a Commerce Service Provider specializes in web hosting for commerce-enabled applications.
7. Application Service Providers - Providers of application services on a rental or pay per use basis, offering an alternative to customer-premise solutions. ASPs may provide industry specific applications (vertical ASPs) or cross-industry general purpose applications (horizontal ASPs). Access to ASPs services is typically via the public Internet.
8. Technology Service Providers - Providers of office technology services, typically bundling voice services, Internet connectivity, applications, help desk services, and security. Most TSPs do not normally operate an ISP, but instead bundle ISP services purchased on a wholesale basis.
9. Specialty Service Providers - The Specialty Service Provider segment is a newly emerging segment of service providers that supplies technology offerings to the Internet industry on a subscription basis, using the Internet as connectivity between the client and the source of service. Caching services, image hosting services, data storage and recovery services, security services, and privacy services are all examples of specialty services sold to the other segments of the Internet service industry.

All Internet Provider (IP) members are voting members and receive one vote per company. There are six Board seats reserved for IP Level B-C. Each IP Level A Member has an automatic seat on the Board.

Internet Provider (IP) Member Categories and Fees

There are five categories of membership:

INTERNET PROVIDER (IP) CATEGORY	ANNUAL INTERNET RELATED REVENUE	ANNUAL DUES
IP Level A	Greater than $20 million	$12,500
IP Level B	From $10 million to $20 million	$9,000
IP Level C	From $5 million to $10 million	$5,500
IP Level D	From $2 million to $5 million	$2,750
IP Level E	Less than $2 million	$1,200

Goods and Services Supplier - Affiliate Member

Affiliate members are those businesses who supply goods and services to the Internet Provider industry.

There are no voting rights associated with CAIP Affiliate members. There are two (2) non-voting seats reserved on the Board for Affiliate members.

AFFILIATE MEMBER CATEGORY	ANNUAL INTERNET RELATED REVENUE	ANNUAL DUES
Affiliate A	Greater than $20 million	$7,500
Affiliate B	From $10 million to $20 million	$5,000
Affiliate C	From $5 million to $10 million	$2,500
Affiliate D	From $2 million to $5 million	$1,500
Affiliate E	Less than $2 million	$1,000

Businesses that do not meet the criteria of the IP member or the Affiliate Member but are interested in furthering the objectives of the CAIP may apply for membership.  Memberships are granted following application to, and approval by the Board of Directors.

Membership Process

Please contact, Cathi Malette, Member Services Manager, CAIP, cmalette@cata.ca or tel: 613-236-6550 to request your membership form and to schedule a conference call with a member of the management team to review any special interests you may have.