* Patrick W. Gilmore: > NEVER EVER EVER put an IX prefix into BGP, IGP, or even static > route. An IXP LAN should not be reachable from any device not > directly attached to that LAN. Period. > > Doing so endangers your peers & the IX itself. It is on the order of > not implementing BCP38, except no one has the (lame, ridiculous, > idiotic, and pure cost-shifting BS) excuse that they "can't" do > this.
Any ideas why DE-CIX doesn't enforce this? One advantage is that IXP participants can perform emergency maintenance if they have isolated their IXP router from their own network.
