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

On 28 Oct 2011, at 12:51, Erik Bais wrote:

>> On 25/10/11 10:51, Emilio Madaio wrote:
>> 
>>> You can find the full proposal at:
>>> 
>>>    http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2011-05
> 
> I want to start with stating that I support the overall intention of this
> proposal. 

Thank you for your support.

> -	Commercial IXP's aka for profit IXP's, should also be able to sign-up for a LIR status and get IP space from there. 
> -	Non-profit IXP's, for the good of the internet, should be able to get IP space under this particular policy. 
> This should be fairly easy for an IPRA to check. 

This might be hard for IPRAs IMO.  How about an IXP which has a commercial (non-association) constitution but no intention to profit from members ?  How about an IXP which is a free product of a commercial company, that will charge no fees ?  How about an IXP with an non-profit constitution, and association, that does in fact make a large constitution and possibly is permitted to redistribute it ?

Euro-IX identified 127 IXPs in Europe.  I think we could count up about 150 different constitutions in those 127 if we looked hard enough and solicited enough opinions. ;-)

I think that even a commercial IXP has the power to be 'good of the internet', even though my personal opinion strongly favours community owned and run initiatives.  I think we may see more commercial IXPs in the future in regions where the fledgling community can not bear the risk.

Many thanks for writing with an opinion.

Andy