[lir-wg] IXP networks routing

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 10:08:11AM +0100, Jan Czmok wrote:
> > >If you want PI space for your IXP to run services in, you can join the
> > >long list of people that would like to have PI space in IPv6, which is
> > >simply not possible at this point in time.
> 
> I would not rather call it PI space.. why not defining and using
> IXP-space (with cooperation from the RIR (like RIPE/APNIC/ARIN etc.)

We *have* IXP-space.  There are special rules to get it, and it's not
guaranteed to be routeable, which is clearly written into the policy.

What people are asking for is *PI* - "get me space that is not tied to
any specific ISP but that nevertheless can be routed over any of them".

Currently there is no PI in IPv6, and many think that this is a good thing.

[..]
> Come on. Calm down. Think! Ripe is surely educated enough to
> differentiate between a Enterprise, ISP or IXP. 

Can you *define* what is an IXP?  In a way that an enterprise aiming for
PI space can't cheat and match that definition?

I cannot.

Gert Doering
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