[arin-ppml] 4.4 Micro Allocations and IXP requirements

[Martin Hannigan]

Right, and a much smaller block. I think I also agree re: v6.


On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 5:15 PM, David Farmer <farmer at umn.edu> wrote:

> On 1/9/14, 15:41 , Martin Hannigan wrote:
>
>>
>> Someone pointed me at 4.4 and noted that it says that an IXP can receive
>> an allocation if two parties are present. The common understanding in
>> the industry is that two parties connected are private peering and three
>> on a common switch "could" be an IXP.
>>
>> Is there a reason not to bump this number up to three in light of
>> prevailing circumstances and conservation of the infrastructure pool? If
>> two is arbitrarily low, it's a good time to make three arbitrarily low.
>> I think it would be wise in terms of insuring that resources are being
>> used effectively.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>
> Sounds reasonable to me.
>
> I'd add that if there are only two it seems reasonable that one of the two
> participants can provide the address block, when there is three or more
> that much more reasonably meets the definition of an IXP and better
> justifies allocation of addresses independent of any of the participants.
>
> Further, the same change should be considered to for IPv6 in 6.10.1.
> Micro-allocations for Critical Infrastructure.  I think it would be a bad
> idea to have different definitions for an IXP between IPv4 and IPv6.
>
> Thanks.
>
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