[address-policy-wg] 2011-05 New Policy Proposal (Safeguarding future IXPs with IPv4 space)

On 27 Oct 2011, at 13:25, Nigel Titley wrote:

> Part of the rational says: "Much of the work that goes into creating Internet Exchange Points today is done in regions of the world where there is no Internet Exchange Point yet. Opening an IXP helps to develop the Internet and Internet community in that region, so the work really is 'good of the Internet'. Starving these regions of an opportunity to build a simple open Internet Exchange Point would be severely damaging to Internet users in regions under-served by IXPs."
> 
> But a brand new IXP will be able to get a /22 under the existing rules. Surely that's enough?

Hi, Nigel and Jim

Thanks for the emails.

Almost no IXPs have PA, and most community based ones don't have budget for their own LIR.  This policy allows successful IXPs to be born in 2012 as they have been between 1994 and 2011.  i.e. the equivalent of PI.  It will provide policy parity with IPv6 too, where IXP specific policy exists in order to sidestep restrictions designed for other networks.

Thanks
Andy