[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2024-4: Internet Exchange Point Definition

[Martin Hannigan]

On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 12:05 PM William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:

> On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 9:24 PM Martin Hannigan <hannigan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 5:07 PM Tyler O'Meara via ARIN-PPML <
> arin-ppml at arin.net> wrote:
> >> Overall I support this change, but I have a few nitpicks:
> >>
> >> 1) We should only include abbreviations/other names for the term if
> they're
> >> actually used in the NRPM; I think future text that uses this
> definition would
> >> be clearer if we selected a single acronym.
> >
> > But that's not the way the real world works. All the acronyms are in use
> unfortunately.
>
> Then you spell out the acronym first. What is NAP? Is it Network
> Access Point? If it's not even obvious to someone like me, the text
> needs work.
>

Or you simply add it to the definition where Internet Exchange becomes a
defined term so we can continue to try and write in English.


>> 2) I would remove the reference to Ethernet (or provide it as an
> example); we
> >> shouldn't prescribe what L2 switching technology gets used by the IXP
> >
> > Open IX OIX-1, an ANSI standard, prescribes ethernet for IX's and
> https://github.com/peeringdb/peeringdb/issues/1555
> > There's pretty much a slammed door on the idea that a router is an IX as
> well.
>
> To hell with 'em.
>

There is a world out there other than the PPML mailing list that can be
helpful and supportive with respect to writing internet number resource
policy. But are also dependent on the community. In the shortening of 4.4
you can see the authors considered the "principles" and sought to tighten
the requirements while addressing more sharply the needs they have to
operate critical infrastructure as well as make language more concise to
enable staff to do their jobs a little more seamlessly. Discarding the hard
work of others only because they're external should be carefully thought
through. The vast majority of those groups are well meaning, supportive of
ARIN's mission and trying to do good for the Internet.

Warm regards,

-M<
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