Hi, On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 04:45:30PM +0200, Arien Vijn wrote:
IX can have non globally routable adress space. The NOC of an IX can have a /48 from any ISP, like any other organization.
As neutral IX we can not do this. This might not be as obvious since there are non-neutral IXes which are owned by one particular company.
Could we please keep these discussions separate? This is a different issue (and has been discussed to death in various IPv6-WG meetings). An IX is no different concerning *upstream* connectivity than any other "I want to be multihomed" customer. The special part about IXes is if they have a non-globally visible exchange LAN - those special networks are for *that* (only). No IX is forced to use that. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 44543 SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-299