[address-policy-wg] 2023-01 New Policy Proposal (Reducing IXP IPv4 assignment default size to a /26)

Hi Nick, Randy, David, Sander, (all,)

agreed, we will remove this part from the proposal.

@David: there was prediction by Marco Schmidt from RIPE at the last meeting. It is linked in the proposal.

Regards,
Matthias

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Von: Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org>
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. Februar 2023 21:47:48
An: Matthias Wichtlhuber
Cc: Angela Dall'Ara; RIPE Address Policy Working Group
Betreff: Re: AW: [address-policy-wg] 2023-01 New Policy Proposal (Reducing IXP IPv4 assignment default size to a /26)

Matthias Wichtlhuber wrote on 08/02/2023 13:36:
> This part of the proposal is intended to foster the adoption of the technology.
> IXPs may offer it as beta or experimental while still doing the actual exchange
> of traffic via standard BGP over IPv4.

Hi Matthias,

this is premature: if the protocol didn't work well in production
environments, that would raise questions about the wisdom of mandating
the protocol in the first place.

In any event, as Randy pointed out, it's generally not a good idea to
use policy in one area to try to force specific technology choices in
another.

Nick