On 28 Oct 2011, at 12:51, Erik Bais wrote:
On 25/10/11 10:51, Emilio Madaio wrote:
You can find the full proposal at:
I want to start with stating that I support the overall intention of this proposal.
Thank you for your support.
- Commercial IXP's aka for profit IXP's, should also be able to sign-up for a LIR status and get IP space from there. - Non-profit IXP's, for the good of the internet, should be able to get IP space under this particular policy. This should be fairly easy for an IPRA to check.
This might be hard for IPRAs IMO. How about an IXP which has a commercial (non-association) constitution but no intention to profit from members ? How about an IXP which is a free product of a commercial company, that will charge no fees ? How about an IXP with an non-profit constitution, and association, that does in fact make a large constitution and possibly is permitted to redistribute it ? Euro-IX identified 127 IXPs in Europe. I think we could count up about 150 different constitutions in those 127 if we looked hard enough and solicited enough opinions. ;-) I think that even a commercial IXP has the power to be 'good of the internet', even though my personal opinion strongly favours community owned and run initiatives. I think we may see more commercial IXPs in the future in regions where the fledgling community can not bear the risk. Many thanks for writing with an opinion. Andy