[136911] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What's really needed is a routing slot market
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Sun Feb 6 12:49:35 2011
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 09:49:12 -0800
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org>
In-Reply-To: <83EF5AB0-741E-4FB2-A348-00477482A848@istaff.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/6/11 9:32 AM, John Curran wrote:
> One hopes that the costs of consuming routing table slots creates
> backpressure to discourage needless use, and that the royalities
> receive offset the costs of carrying any additional routing table
> slots.
>
> Note that our present system lacks both consistent backpressure on
> consumption of routing table slots and compensation for carrying
> additional routes.
The costs of carrying routes is unevenly distributed. when I have to
carry 2 million routes in my fib on few hundred 120Gb/s line cards it's
a bit different than someone with a software router who just has to make
sure they have 4GB of ram...
That has very attractive properties along some dimensions. e.g. the cost
at the margin of connecting a new participant to the internet is rather low.
