[lir-wg] IXP networks routing / IXP membership

Hi Kurt, Hi Pim, and everybody who listens,

I would like to support Kurt´s request for inventing an IXP membership.
Today the ixp´s are a vital part of the global infrastructure, but they are
not represented as a legal member of ripe. Sure we can come to every meeting
and can do nearly all the things the LIR´s are doing, but it is always some
kind of guest status.

> I also believe in the RIPE-NCC to be able to distinguish between
enterprises that
> might request a status of an IXP. It all depends of the policy and
conditions.
This is very simple. Have a lock at the peering matrix and you can
distinguish between a enterprise and an IXP (or am i wrong here?).

greetings
- Stefan Wahl