[36480] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP Economics ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Sat Apr 7 18:58:26 2001
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 15:56:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net>
To: Marshall Eubanks <tme@21rst-century.com>
Cc: Geoff Huston <gih@telstra.net>,
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> I just noticed the remarkable flattening in the recent growth of the BGP table
> in your BGP graphs at :
> http://www.telstra.net/ops/bgp/index.html
> Is this cessation of growth real ? Is this a sign of the recent economic slow-down,
There's been quite a bit of discussion of this in the metrics
community. The flattening out appears to be largely in the /21-and-longer
area, such that folks who are filtering haven't seen as much of a
flattening as those who aren't. The link to the economic downturn is one
that Phil Smith suggested. That's a difficult causal relationship to
validate, though, regardless of how much sense it makes.
-Bill
