Anyone alive at ep.net

Wed Jan 7 09:01:42 UTC 2004

ep.net is the neutral IP allocation agency for a significant number of
exchanges world wide.  We have our own IP space, however, we require an IP
on the IX so we can peer with other neighbors on the exchange, like Bill
said!

-Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Woodcock [mailto:woody at pch.net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 2:49 AM
To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
Cc: Christopher.Malayter at tdstelecom.com; nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: Anyone alive at ep.net

      On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
    > > I've been awaiting allocation of an IP from an IX that is allocated
by
    > > ep.net.
    > 	why not get an allocation for IX from ARIN/RIPE?

Because then he wouldn't be able to use it to communicate with anyone else
at the exchange, since they'd all be in the ep.net subnet, and he'd be in
a different subnet.

                                -Bill