* Wolfgang Tremmel
when opening a new exchange there are no customers connected yet, all you have is a business plan. So everything is kind of speculative and you can easily adjust your plan that you need a /24 - so why add additional workload to the NCC to review business plans?
Hi, Using this rationale, why stop at /24? Why not give /23s by default - that is the only way to ascertain that the NCC does not have to review business plans, after all? I don't see how /24 is special in this context. Also note that «stopping the NCC from reviewing business plans» is not a stated objective of this policy proposal. In any case, if the IXP manages to fill up its /x with members the policy allows for replacing it with with a /x+1.
An honest IXP operator can request something smaller if he knows that the exchange will not grow beyond a small number of customers within the first 5 years or so.
You are implying that small IXPs that do not need more than /{27..25} are being dishonest if they don't say so instead of taking the default /24 on offer. Note that there is nothing in the proposed policy that requires or even encourages them to do so, however. So why would they? Tore