I think that if it’s a cache that is serving the IX (i.e. the IX member 
networks) over the IX peering VLAN, that’s perfectly valid.

Owen


> On Apr 18, 2024, at 20:35, Fernando Frediani <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 18/04/2024 21:34, Matt Peterson wrote:
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>> 
>> If the policy needs revision (John's comments did not provide enough of a 
>> background story - it's unclear if this a yet another IPv4 land grab 
>> approach, and/or IXP's evolving into hosting content caches, and/or the 
>> historical industry acceptable usage that Ryan shares), maybe consider 
>> micro-allocations for IXP usage as unannounced prefixes and for routed 
>> prefixes, an IXP applies under NRPM 4.3 (end user assignments).
> I have a similar conversation recently with someone willing to use IXP 
> allocations to assign to content caches and on this point I think that IXP 
> pool should not be for that. Even knowing the positive impact a hosted 
> content directly connected to a IXP makes it is their business to being their 
> own IP address not the IXP and to be fair if you think of any CDN service 
> they all have total means to do that. Therefore IXP allocations should be 
> used for IXP own usage, so internal Infrastructure and to connect members and 
> things should not be mixed up.
> 
> Regards
> Fernando
> 
>> 
>> --Matt
>> 
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