Guidelines

For reference we recommend the Euro-IX Glossary for a list of terms and common definitions used at Internet Exchanges.

1. No formal peering policy is in place (on purpose) - peering is bilaterial, their is no requirement to peer with all participants.
2. Members are required to run BGP4 for traffic cordination, IGP's such as OSPF and RIP aren't welcomed.
3. Members are required to provide a 365/24/7 email & phone support for network escalations. Members are expected to notify SFMIX of new or updated contact information in a timely fashion.
4. Broadcast/multicast traffic (eg: DHCP, CDP) is not welcomed on the switch fabic.
5. Participants are expected to be "good net citizens", no sniffing other members traffic, no packet flooding, assist in debugging DDoS attacks, etc.
6. Members are expected to prenegotiate acceptable network provisioning with other partcipants before bringing up a session (eg: pointing default, modifying next-hop, etc).
7. Port utilization over 70% is a sign for an upgrade, members falling into this category are expected to upgrade to a higher capacity port.
8. Members are expected to monitor the mailing list.

Optionally members are recommended to have an IRR entry and INOC-DBA number.