<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi Nick, <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/09/2015 16:27, Nick Hilliard wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:55E7073A.4000908@inex.ie" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 02/09/2015 14:55, Sascha Luck [ml] wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Does IXP space come out of a separate pool from any other ipv4? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> from what I understand, it comes out of a dedicated /16. RIPE NCC will be able to confirm whether this is a contiguous /16 or not.</pre> </blockquote> 185.1.0.0/16 is the /16 reserved for IXP assignments. However, according to the RIPE-649: "IP space returned by IXPs will be added to the reserved pool maintained for IXP use" [1]. This means that we will also make new IXP assignments from an IP block different than 185.1.0.0/16, when re-using the "IP space returned by IXPs". [1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-649#61">https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-649#61</a> I hope this clarifies Andrea Cima RIPE NCC </body> </html>