[eix-wg] Re: [address-policy-wg] 2010-07 New Policy Proposal (Ambiguity cleanup on IPv6 Address Space Policy for IXP)

On 27 okt 2010, at 13:15, niels=apwg at bakker.net wrote:

> * andy at nosignal.org (Andy Davidson) [Thu 21 Oct 2010, 16:40 CEST]:
>> On 19 Oct 2010, at 16:00, Emilio Madaio wrote:
>>>   http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2010-07.html
> [..]
>> 
>> Now that IPv6 PI is available to all networks, in addition to Internet Exchange Points, perhaps we do not need to have a special policy for IXPs at all, but I see possible future value in IXPs sitting inside 2001:7f8/32, so I think it should remain.
> 
> IPv6 PI won't work for IXPs as numbers need to be handed out to connected parties, which is not allowed for PIv6 (in contrast to PIv4 under INFRA-AW).


As long as it's one address per customer out of a shared block it's allowed as being infrastructure. What you are not allowed to do is to assign a /64 to each customer, but I don't see a reason for an IXP to do that anyway.

MarcoH