Afraid it will be a point of discussion until this issue is resolved properly. Sorry.
An IX is no different concerning *upstream* connectivity than any other "I want to be multihomed" customer.
Who's customer? Please do understand that some IXes just can not be a customer of one individual member.
Why not be a "customer" af ALL individual members ? If ISP X want to be on AMS-IX, you give an IP from the /64. And the ISP gives you a /48 and transit. There is still the multihoming problem, with a little change : AMS-IX will have a lot of upstreams. You have independance and neutrality for your transit. The /64 is given directly by the RIR : you have independance and neutrality for your IP adresses The /64 has not to be routable globally. For the DNS root servers, the problem is that they must have a real PI adress which is routable globally and which will never change. -- Xavier Henner Responsable de l'exp�rimentation IPv6 Nerim -- Fournisseur d'acc�s � Internet URL: <http://www.nerim.net/>