Re: [ipv6-wg@localhost] Re: [lir-wg] IXP networks routing

[Gert Doering <]

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 10:08:03PM +0000, Fearghas McKay wrote:
> At 22:20 +0100 3/3/03, Gert Doering wrote:
> >Can you *define* what is an IXP?  In a way that an enterprise aiming for
> >PI space can't cheat and match that definition?
> 
> what is the problem with the current definition that we have agreed on?

The current definition is fine for the purpose we have: special-case,
non-routeable (at least not guaranteed to) IXP address space.  There's
no big gain for an enterprise trying to cheat to get such a prefix

For the proposed purpose - to get IXPs some sort of PI space - it's
different - enterprises want PI, and if the only way they can get it 
is to claim to have setup an IXP, chances are that some will do.  This
is why we have to be careful here.

Gert Doering
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