[136990] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What's really needed is a routing slot market (was: Using IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Feb 7 16:14:36 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikU2P4RYc5y8X=xf4YVyoHCoY=GUDJhcH0tpmYi@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 13:10:07 -0800
To: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 7, 2011, at 12:19 PM, Matthew Petach wrote:
> 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)
Currently: 3,134 IPv6 ASNs active.
Currently: 4,265 IPv6 prefixes.
Looks like less than 2:1 to me.
That's as close as I think I can get to an IPv6 CIDR report for the moment.
Owen
