[136985] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What's really needed is a routing slot market (was: Using IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Petach)
Mon Feb 7 15:19:19 2011
In-Reply-To: <D2096AFE-95A2-4BF9-959F-05B520CE4E3C@delong.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 12:19:16 -0800
From: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
>
...
> On the other hand, when we can deprecate global routing of IPv4, we
> will see an earth shattering improvement as the current 10:1 prefix
> to provider ratio (300,000 prefixes for ~30,000 active ASNs) drops
> to something more like 2:1 in IPv6 due to providers not having to
> constantly run back to the RIR for additional slow-start allocations.
>
> Owen
I suspect as we start seeing the CIDR report for IPv6, we'll see that
ASNs are announcing considerably more prefixes than that, in order
to localize traffic better. I don't think it'll be 300,000 prefixes, but
I'd be willing to bet it'll be more than 100,000--not exactly "earth
shattering improvement".
Matt
(hopeless deaggregator)
