Action 2: Promote MANRS to the IXP Membership
The IXP provides encouragement or assistance for members to implement MANRS Actions. (There are 4 separate check-boxes for different levels of incentives; one or more must be checked.)
The IXP actively promotes MANRS by encouraging its members to implement the appropriate MANRS Actions:
The encouragement can take different forms:
Action 2-1: Offer assistance to its members to maintain accurate routing information in an appropriate repository (IRR and/or RPKI)
This may take the form of trainings or tutorials, for example, as part of the onboarding process.
Action 2-2: Offer assistance in implementing MANRS Network Operator Program Actions for the members
This may take the form of trainings or tutorials, for example, as part of the onboarding process. The MANRS resources page (https://manrs.org/resources/) will have up-to-date materials on MANRS that will be of use to the IXP members.
Action 2-3: Indicate MANRS participation on the member list and the website
Display the MANRS logo or badge next to the names of the MANRS conformant members on the IXP's website so as to encourage other members to actively pursue MANRS conformance. IXP Manager, a management platform for IXPs, could be used to achieve this via a built-in feature that allows highlighting of MANRS membership on a IXP member's public and internal pages (https://docs.ixpmanager.org/features/manrs/).
Action 2-4: Provide incentives linked to MANRS readiness
This may be a symbolic price reduction or any other benefit with the rationale that a MANRS conformant member will less likely cause issues with other peers and the IXP operations, are easier to coordinate with, etc. therefore reducing the cost of providing the IXP service.