[address-policy-wg] 2019-05 New Policy Proposal (Revised IPv4 assignment policy for IXPs)

The small technical difficulties of using private networks by IXPs are easily solved.
Ordinary companies that will lack the IPv4 will have much greater difficulties.
Right, the IPs for IXPs should be unique.
Perhaps it makes sense to create a policy of allocation Private-Use IPs for IXPs?
If IXPs will follow that policy, they will have unique private IPs.

29.05.2019, 16:58, "Denis Fondras" <ripe at liopen.fr>:
> On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 04:42:59PM +0300, Alexandr Popov wrote:
>>  IXPs can use Private-Use Networks such as 10.0.0.0/8.
>>  There is no technical need to spend a valuable resource for such purposes.
>
> It has to be unique.
>
> On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 02:41:00PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>>  /23 is 512 hosts, which is large by IXP standards. The PCH IXP directory
>>  suggests there are about 20 IXPs worldwide which are larger than 256
>>  connected parties.
>
> And only 3 with more than 512 connected ASN. But can we imagine some ASN have
> more than 1 IP on the peering LAN ?
>
> I agree there is really a small chance an IXP will ask for more the /23. Still I
> can't see the point of this limitation.
>
> Denis