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NATIONAL INTER CONNECTION EXCHANGE (NICE) With the advance growth of the Internet , it is now necessary to reduce routing cost and increase availability. The Internet Registries has also acknowledge the need of corporates having multiple Upstreams . The small Multihoming policy of portable IP Addresses for corporates has the right vision to achieve this, however, the common acceptance of deploying Internet Exchange Point s (IXPs) for ISPs only, has limited the routability of small multi-homing networks, since it is uncommon for non ISP s to connect directly to an IXP. The idea of establishing a more open IXP was conceived by the ISPs, Government, Corporates, Internet Cafes , and the Internet Community in Indonesia. An open IXP would achieve routing efficiency for all routable networks without the constraints of having to obtain a government ISP license to connect to an IXP or the common practice of having to be a member of an ISP association. These are some of the constraints that has happened in connecting networks to a local Internet Exchange where the RIR has assigned Small Multihoming addresses to non ISPs. Having a more efficient path and reduce routing cost associated with Internet connectivity is the main objective of NICE. Being an Open Exchange will reduce discrimination of routable Traffic , where any entity be it an ISP or a Corporate or even an Internet Cafe will have the same right to route its network directly to a local Exchange. Networks will be crossed checked with the RIR databases to determine its routability within NICE. Autonomous System Numbers (ASN) will be strongly encourage to grow the traffic exchanged and at the same time hopefully reduce the number of IPv4 assignments by the RIR. NICE will also be developed with an IPv6 stack with the goal of encouraging the local Internet to deploy IPv6 within their network sooner rather than later. As NICE is a community based effort, it will be developed as a Non-profit exchange and will to the best of the communities efforts have no fees to connect to it. SEE ALSO |
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