Le Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 04:56:14PM +0100, Radu-Adrian FEURDEAN a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2022, at 13:00, Tore Anderson wrote:
> > Actually, I do have some real-life experience here as I/AS39029 was
> > part of the NIX renumbering process back in 2017. The whole operation
> > was rather straight-forward and went very smoothly. NIX staff simply
> > informed all members of their new IPs by e-mail and told to migrate
> > within a certain date (different dates for NIX1 and NIX2).
> 
> Well, this seems to be the customer-side experience, not the IXP-side.
> Also, what I can see is that responsiveness of NOCs and peering teams of 
> members is only getting worse with time.
> At France-IX, just changing a netmask (from /23 to /22) - because we have the 
> biggest 3 out of 5 IXPs numbered from PA space - took just under 2 years to 
> complete (23 months to be precise). More than 80% did the change in less than 
> 3 months, but after 12 months we still had a few members that didn't change 
> their config.
> OK, things end up in a slightly more violent manner with renumbering, but you 
> sill end up with "zombie members", not all of them being small players.
> 
> /29 is way too small. It's 6 members, and that supposes that you don't have 
> route-servers or any other internal stuff on the peering LAN. Getting from 
> /29 to /25 that's 4 renumberings, and that may well happen within 2 years. 
> You end up being labelled as "unstable" (read "junk" or "toy" IXP). 3 
> renumberings to get to /26.
> 
> > NIX is (and was) a mid-sized IX, currently around 60 participants.
> > Based on that experience I have honestly a very hard time believing
> > that renumbering a small IX is «much more difficult [than renumbering
> > a] data centre or an access provider».
> 
> Convincing different distinct parties to do something within a specific 
> timeframe is always difficult. Especially when you have to deal with big 
> companies. 
> Pushing things too hard will only get you losing members.....
> I do agree that /26 is a decent minimum, and /27 is the strictest acceptable 
> minimum (if there really isn't anything bigger left).
> ... or getting rid of v4 entirely, which seems to be on nobody's agenda ...
> 

Thank you very much for your message Radu-Adrian, I was about to send something
along the same line :)

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