[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2023-2: /26 initial IPv4 allocation for IXPs

[David Farmer]

Oops, sorry the RIPE proposal number is 2023-01.

On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 08:15 David Farmer <farmer at umn.edu> wrote:

> Actually, I expect the genesis of this proposal was the very similar
> proposal in the RIPE community RIPE-2023-02 Reducing IXP IPv4 assignment
> default size to a /26. That proposal followed a presentation at RIPE 86
> last fall and a discussion on their address-policy-wg mailing late last
> year. The conversation started with a reduction to /29, and a reasonable
> compromise of /26 that was written in to a formal proposal earlier this
> year. That proposal is progressing through their process and just finished
> their Discussion Phase last week, and has entered their Review Phase, and
> at least seems to be heading towards being policy in the RIPE community.
>
> While I do not support this proposal, especially as written, it is
> nevertheless an important and timely conversation for the ARIN community to
> have and I for one appreciate it being brought forward to our community as
> a proposal.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 03:19 Matt Peterson <matt at peterson.org> wrote:
>
>> It's clear this proposal did not receive feedback from those of us
>> who operate IXP's *(or those who lived through the ep.net
>> <http://ep.net> era).* Renumbering events are often multi-year efforts
>> for an IXP, this "savings" is not worth the operational overhead. I'm not
>> in support of this proposal. This is a solution looking for a problem, we
>> have both the appropriate pool size and a method to refill.
>>
>> If anything, the 4.4 requirement language around *"other participants
>> (minimum of three total)" *could use some attention. ARIN's service
>> region has many "shadow IXP's", which may have 3 unique ASN's *(say a
>> route server, route collector, and management network) *- but are all
>> operated by the same organization. That does not seem like a legitimate
>> definition of an exchange point, especially when that operator is the only
>> participant over several years.
>>
>> --Matt
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 8:54 AM ARIN <info at arin.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 15 June 2023, the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) accepted “ARIN-prop-320:
>>> /26 initial IPv4 allocation for IXPs” as a Draft Policy.
>>>
>>> Draft Policy ARIN-2023-2 is below and can be found at:
>>>
>>> https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/2023_2
>>>
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