Small IX IP Blocks

Sat Apr 4 23:53:14 UTC 2015

On Sat, 2015-04-04 at 18:02 -0500, Mike Hammett wrote:
> That makes sense. I do recall now reading about having that 8 bit
> separation between tiers of networks. However, in an IX everyone is
> supposed to be able to talk to everyone else. Traditionally (AFAIK),
> it's all been on the same subnet. At least the ones I've been involved
> with have been single subnets, but that's v4 too. 

Think flexible, think big, think future. Limiting yourself to tiny
subnets and assuming your circumstances and requirements will not change
is a recipe for difficult times ahead.

Go as large as you can now, and route between participants. They might
not always be friends with each other, or indeed with you, and the
ability to isolate, redirect, offload, recombine and filter is critical
to the flexibility of your (future) product offering.

Regards, K.

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