Hi, On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 04:12:58PM +0100, Stefan Wahl wrote:
I would like to support Kurt´s request for inventing an IXP membership. Today the ixp´s are a vital part of the global infrastructure, but they are not represented as a legal member of ripe. Sure we can come to every meeting and can do nearly all the things the LIR´s are doing, but it is always some kind of guest status.
I don't understand this. The RIPE meetings, and the policy making working group (lir-wg) are open to everybody. This is not tied to being a LIR. What kind of disadvantage to you see for the IXPs here? [..]
I also believe in the RIPE-NCC to be able to distinguish between enterprises that might request a status of an IXP. It all depends of the policy and conditions. This is very simple. Have a lock at the peering matrix and you can distinguish between a enterprise and an IXP (or am i wrong here?).
So is C&W (just to pick one example) an enterprise or an IXP? Yes, I am nitpicking, but if you want to introduce special categories, you should be able to specify the criteria pretty well. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 57021 (57147) SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-299