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

On Wed, May 29, 2019, at 15:11, Denis Fondras wrote:
> Just because of "It no longer provides for IXPs that need more than a 
> /23 of IPv4
> space" I am against this proposal.

Hi,

The alternative is that in just a few years it will no longer provide IXPs with any space.
Right now, according to peeringdb, in RIPE region there are 5 IXPs holding a /21 and 5 (or 4, depending on how you consider the 2 LINX LANs) that hold a /22, and 14 (12, depending on how you count multi-LAN IXPs) that hold a /23. 
Let's hear their point of view, since building an IXP so big takes a lot of time (took almost 9 years for FranceIX to get there).

Those being said, I'm in favour of the proposal. Just one reserve on wording of the assignment of "dust" (less than /24): if a request (for smaller than /24) is being made before the reserved pool exhaustion, will it be taken from he reserved pool or from the "dust" ?

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Radu-Adrian FEURDEAN