On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Leo Vegoda wrote:
The kind of requirements we anticipated were things like:
- 24/7 NOC - Assigned a unique AS Number - Assigned or allocated address space - Routing policy published in an IRR database
It was not intended that the requirements be onerous. The goal was to make sure that membership was available to network operators in general rather than being available to an elite clique.
I haven't been involved in this discussion, but just to bring an outside perspective into it.. Why should an exchange run a 24x7 NOC or not be entitled to restrict who can peer over it? I realise most European exchanges are mutual (and I hope it stays that way), but we shouldn't be making it more difficult for someone to either start an exchange nor restrict their ability to run it. Having IRR registered routes is far more important than how a business wants to run its internal affairs. Regards, Sebastien. (for transparency: I am a director of a mutual exchange which already has an IPv6 block; but these views are strictly my own, etc.)