<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">I certainly didn’t get that vibe from Owen. <div><br></div><div>However, Fernando, your recommendation is a policy change.  I would be against that at this point.</div><div><br></div><div>I firmly believe that IX’s should be able to use a /24 for services and additional 4.4 space for their IX LAN.</div><div><br></div><div>There is zero in the current iteration of the policy to prohibit this.</div><div><br></div><div>-Chris</div><div><br></div><div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 22, 2024, at 6:49 PM, Fernando Frediani <fhfrediani@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>

  
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  <div><p>Of course Owen, on every email I read from you I get the
      impression that if it was up to you there would be no need for
      RIRs and policies to exist or maybe to be conservative in this
      impression you seem to like of the RIRs as a simple bookeeper with
      no power to enforce anything, even what the community who develops
      the policies set as reasonable.<br>
    </p><p>It is of course up to the RIR, has always been and hopefully will
      continue to be, to dictate certain things which some private ones
      keeps refusing to comply because take out their freedom to do what
      they like with something doesn't belong to them. Simply if
      something is not in line with a policy set by this forum it is up
      to the RIR to dictate something that may not be desired by
      someone. I know that it may not be good for certain kind of
      business but life is not fair in many ways. So, just save up from
      recurring to this old useless mantra.<br>
    </p><p>It doesn't matter if an IXP have abused or not. What I am putting
      is there should be well defined rules on how resources can be used
      and not allow this continuous "rule-less party desire" go just
      because it may hit someone's desire to take advantage of the
      system.<br>
      Fernando<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 22/04/2024 16:57, Owen DeLong wrote:<br>
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      I’m not the one who is mixed up here. I know exactly what the
      policy intent was, I was very involved in creating the policy.
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      <div>IXPs are meant to provide value to the peers which gather at
        the IXP by facilitating the efficient delivery of traffic
        amongst participants in the IXP. One way to do that is direct
        peering relationships through the IXP fabric. However, that is
        not the only valid mechanism for doing so. Additional services
        such as route servers, caches, etc. can also bring value to
        participants and it is not the role of the RIRs to dictate to
        IXPs which of those particular things are or are not valid use
        of the IXPs addressing.</div>
      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>My point is that I do not know of any IXPs currently abusing
        their addresses for any of the purposes you stated would occur.</div>
      <div><br>
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      <div>I’m not supporting or proposing any change to current IXP
        related policy. I’m stating that the policy is sufficient as is.</div>
      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>You are the one arguing for a change. That change is not,
        IMHO, supported by the record and multiple other people have
        commented on the potential harmful effects of a change.</div>
      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>As such, I fail to see how you can claim I am arguing for a
        more flexible scenario. I. am arguing to preserve the status
        quo.</div>
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      <div>Owen</div>
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            <div>On Apr 21, 2024, at 22:45, Fernando Frediani
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:fhfrediani@gmail.com"><fhfrediani@gmail.com></a> wrote:</div>
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              <div><p>It seems you kind of disregards the basics of IP
                  assignment and mix up things and what they were made
                  for and thought for. It is not because something looks
                  convenient, that is something right. When conveniences
                  prevail over the main point we start to miss the
                  discussion propose. What you are saying below looks
                  more a personal preference if you were in charge of an
                  IX to make it develop than what is the main point of
                  the discussion how resources from a special pool
                  should be treated.<br>
                  IXPs are not Broadband Services Providers nor RIRs and
                  are not meant to distribute IP space to anyone. IXPs
                  need the IPs to build its core services in order to
                  interconnect ASNs locally. Organizations connecting to
                  an IXP have the ability to go directly to the RIR and
                  get resources from there through different ways and
                  that's how it should continue.</p><p>Fernando<br>
                </p>
                <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 22/04/2024 00:06, Owen
                  DeLong wrote:<br>
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                  A small probability of abuse is generally not seen as
                  a reason to deny legitimate users.
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                  <div>I think we can generally count on IXPs not to
                    distribute large portions of their resources to
                    cache providers that do not bring significant value
                    to the users of the IX with those resources. To the
                    best of my knowledge, there is no problem of abuse
                    to date. As such, I think your concern here has
                    about as much credibility as those crying about
                    election fraud in the US.</div>
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                  <div>Owen</div>
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                        <div>On Apr 18, 2024, at 22:31, Fernando
                          Frediani <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:fhfrediani@gmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true"><fhfrediani@gmail.com></a>
                          wrote:</div>
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                          <div><p>By doing this it creates a short path to
                              some specific type of Internet companies
                              over the others to have access to scarce
                              resources via someone else's right (the
                              IX) to request those addresses for the
                              minimum necessary to setup an IX, not to
                              'give a hand' to third parties. It would
                              start to distort the purpose of the pool.<br>
                            </p><p>Content providers members are members
                              like any other connected to that IX. Why
                              make them special to use these resources
                              if other members (e.g: Broadband Internet
                              Service Providers) connected to that same
                              IX cannot have the same privilege ?<br>
                              They and any other IX member, regardless
                              of their business, can get their own
                              allocations with their own resources.</p><p>Fernando<br>
                            </p>
                            <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 19/04/2024
                              02:13, Owen DeLong wrote:<br>
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                              I think that if it’s a cache that is
                              serving the IX (i.e. the IX member
                              networks) over the IX peering VLAN, that’s
                              perfectly valid.
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                              <div>Owen</div>
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                                    <div>On Apr 18, 2024, at 20:35,
                                      Fernando Frediani <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:fhfrediani@gmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true"><fhfrediani@gmail.com></a>
                                      wrote:</div>
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                                        <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On
                                          18/04/2024 21:34, Matt
                                          Peterson wrote:<br>
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                                            <div>If the policy needs
                                              revision <i>(John's
                                                comments did not provide
                                                enough of a background
                                                story - it's unclear if
                                                this a yet another IPv4
                                                land grab approach,
                                                and/or IXP's evolving
                                                into hosting content
                                                caches, and/or the
                                                historical industry
                                                acceptable usage that
                                                Ryan shares), </i>maybe
                                              consider micro-allocations
                                              for IXP usage as
                                              unannounced prefixes and
                                              for routed prefixes, an
                                              IXP applies under NRPM 4.3
                                              <i>(end user assignments).
                                                <br>
                                              </i></div>
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                                        </blockquote><p>I have a similar conversation
                                          recently with someone willing
                                          to use IXP allocations to
                                          assign to content caches and
                                          on this point I think that IXP
                                          pool should not be for that.
                                          Even knowing the positive
                                          impact a hosted content
                                          directly connected to a IXP
                                          makes it is their business to
                                          being their own IP address not
                                          the IXP and to be fair if you
                                          think of any CDN service they
                                          all have total means to do
                                          that. Therefore IXP
                                          allocations should be used for
                                          IXP own usage, so internal
                                          Infrastructure and to connect
                                          members and things should not
                                          be mixed up.<br>
                                        </p><p>Regards<br>
                                          Fernando<br>
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                                            <div>--Matt</div>
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