[arin-ppml] 4.4 Micro Allocations and IXP requirements

[David Farmer]

On 1/9/14, 18:13 , Bill Woodcock wrote:
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> On Jan 9, 2014, at 3:11 PM, Aaron <aaron at wholesaleinternet.net> wrote:
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>> When I got my IXP allocation I was told that I couldn't host any infrastructure on it -  web sites, monitoring boxes, mail servers and that it was only to be given out to exchange members.  I use other IP space to host the exchange's web, mail and monitoring services.
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>> It seems like a pretty poor way to "game the system" and get IP space since it's a /24 and the initial scrutiny is pretty tough.
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> I agree, there’s not a problem to solve here, since many IXPs get started with two participants, with others following along behind quickly enough.  The two-versus-three question was fully debated at the time of the original policy proposal, as I recall, and nothing about IXPs has changed since then.
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>                                  -Bill

Bill,

I have no doubt it was discussed. But I'm having difficulty finding the 
discussion in the archives.  ARIN-2001-3, took the preexisting IPv4 
Micro-allocation policy, slightly modified it and applied it to both 
IPv4 and IPv6.  The discussion of ARIN-2001-3 mostly focused on the DNS 
side of things, there was little discussion of IXP portion of the policy.

The Micro allocation policy that predated ARIN-2001-3 is at the 
following link, the text in question is identical in that policy to the 
current text.

https://www.arin.net/policy/archive/obsolete_microallocation.html

But, I'm having trouble locating any record of the discussion of this 
text.  Further, any such discussion is well over 10 years old, probably 
closer to 15 years.  So,


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