[133386] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Start accepting longer prefixes as IPv4 depletes?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Wed Dec 8 18:09:12 2010
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D000B22.9050509@brightok.net>
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 00:08:20 +0100
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 8 dec 2010, at 23:48, Jack Bates wrote:
> I'm going to go out on a limb (and not read the last BGP summary =
reports) and say that ISPs being assigned fragmented space has caused =
more routing table bloat than deaggregation for traffic engineering.
Why would ISPs get fragmented space? The RIRs are still getting /8s from =
IANA at the moment.
And most deaggregation is not for traffic engineering because the =
attributes are all the same.=
