It appears to me that this has been working fine with 2 so I see no need to increase the requirement to 3. -1
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 6, 2014, at 11:36 AM, "David Farmer" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2/5/14, 17:36 , Andrew Dul wrote: >> Hello, >> >> This draft policy will be discussed next week at the nanog PPC, in >> addition we welcome feedback on this draft on PPML. Specifically if you >> could comment on the following two points it would be appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> Andrew >> >> >> Does the community support raising the minimum requirement for IXPs from >> 2 to 3? > > I support the change from a two participants to a three participant standard > to qualify as an Internet Exchange Point (IXP). > > To date the risk created by allowing the minimum of two participates for an > IXP has been extremely low, as the motivation for abuse was also extremely > low. However, as we proceed through run-out of the general IPv4 free pool > the motivations for abuse will increase dramatically. Raising the standard to > three participants to qualify as an IXP seems like a prudent precaution to > ensure that the reservation for IXPs, and other critical infrastructure that > was made in ARIN-2011-4, is protected to ensure availability of resources for > legitimate IXPs in the future. > > There will be some impact on the start-up of some IXPs, this is unfortunate. > However, the three participant standard is not completely unreasonable, given > the potential for increased abuse of the two participant standard. > >> Does the community believe that additional clarity is needed to define >> if an IXP uses the end-user or ISP fee schedule? > > I believe both the old language and the new language regarding this issue > should be stricken, this is an ARIN business issue, not a policy issue. I > have no problem with such a recommendation being included in the comments > section, outside the policy text itself. I support the general concept it > represents, but it is just not a policy issue in my opinion. > > Thanks. > > -- > ================================================ > David Farmer Email: [email protected] > Office of Information Technology > University of Minnesota > 2218 University Ave SE Phone: 1-612-626-0815 > Minneapolis, MN 55414-3029 Cell: 1-612-812-9952 > ================================================ > _______________________________________________ > PPML > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). > Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: > http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml > Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues. _______________________________________________ PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues.
