Rules

Version: 1.3

The following rules are applicable to the following SONIX IXPs:

  • SONIX Stockholm
  • SONIX Gothenburg
  • SONIX Malmo

By connecting to an IXP part of SONIX you acknowledge the following.

General requirements

  • At least one physical on-net link with SONIX equipment
  • ASN assigned by RIR
  • Settlement-free peering only; to exchange paid services between members that depends on SONIX is not allowed
  • Members are not allowed to use the IX to exchange intra-organization traffic.
  • Members are only allowed to exchange traffic targeting the Default-free zone (DFZ)
  • Members must avoid actions that significantly risk overloading the IX service or other members.
  • Members must avoid actions that can cause mis-direction of traffic
  • Traffic may only be forwarded towards a member if permission is given by the member

If a member shows a willful disregard for the IX service rules they will be disconnected from the service.

Technical requirements

  • Only unicast frames with defined source MAC-address are allowed, with the exception of neighbor discovery mechanisms
  • For all traffic, the following rules apply:
    • Frame sizes upto (MTU) 9000 is allowed
    • Only Ethernet frame types IPv4 (0x0800), IPv6 (0x86dd) and ARP (0x0806) are allowed
  • For intra-IX[1] traffic, the following rules apply in addition to the above:
    • Traffic destined to the IX subnet must be sourced from the IX subnet
    • The following ICMP and ICMPv6 packets are forbidden:
      • ICMP Redirect Message (Type 5)
      • ICMPv6 Router Solicitation (Type 133)
      • ICMPv6 Router Advertisement (Type 134)
      • ICMPv6 Redirect (Type 137)
  • Members are not allowed to advertise the IX subnet towards other AS networks
  • Only one MAC-address is allowed per link and is assigned by member
  • Only one IPv4-address and IPv6-address is allowed per link and is assigned by SONIX

[1] Intra-IX is defined as traffic sourced from or destined to the IX network subnet.

Data privacy

  • SONIX implements data inspection[2] in order to calculate statistics of how the IX is being used.
    • Non-aggregated data is purged after maximum 90 days. Note: SONIX aims to purge such data within 14 days.
  • SONIX will provide access to data collected from a member port to that member if requested.
  • SONIX publishes all time series data collected and computed publicly on metric.sonix.network
    • Anyone is free to use the public Prometheus API to query these time series and retain them for as long as they want.
    • The member’s AS name and number will be exported as part of these metrics.
    • SONIX may retain time series data indefinitely.

[2] Using e.g. sFlow and selective traffic mirroring