[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2014-7: Section 4.4 MicroAllocation Conservation Update

[Steven Ryerse]

It appears to me that this has been working fine with 2 so I see no need to increase the requirement to 3. 
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> On Feb 6, 2014, at 11:36 AM, "David Farmer" <farmer at umn.edu> wrote:
> 
>> On 2/5/14, 17:36 , Andrew Dul wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> This draft policy will be discussed next week at the nanog PPC, in
>> addition we welcome feedback on this draft on PPML.  Specifically if you
>> could comment on the following two points it would be appreciated.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Andrew
>> 
>> 
>> Does the community support raising the minimum requirement for IXPs from
>> 2 to 3?
> 
> I support the change from a two participants to a three participant standard to qualify as an Internet Exchange Point (IXP).
> 
> To date the risk created by allowing the minimum of two participates for an IXP has been extremely low, as the motivation for abuse was also extremely low.  However, as we proceed through run-out of the general IPv4 free pool the motivations for abuse will increase dramatically. Raising the standard to three participants to qualify as an IXP seems like a prudent precaution to ensure that the reservation for IXPs, and other critical infrastructure that was made in ARIN-2011-4, is protected to ensure availability of resources for legitimate IXPs in the future.
> 
> There will be some impact on the start-up of some IXPs, this is unfortunate.  However, the three participant standard is not completely unreasonable, given the potential for increased abuse of the two participant standard.
> 
>> Does the community believe that additional clarity is needed to define
>> if an IXP uses the end-user or ISP fee schedule?
> 
> I believe both the old language and the new language regarding this issue should be stricken, this is an ARIN business issue, not a policy issue.  I have no problem with such a recommendation being included in the comments section, outside the policy text itself.  I support the general concept it represents, but it is just not a policy issue in my opinion.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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