[617] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: number of unaggregated class C's in swamp?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Sat Sep 30 09:10:39 1995
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 95 09:19:47 GMT
From: "William Allen Simpson" <bsimpson@morningstar.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Cc: cidrd@iepg.org
> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 20:16:54 -0400
> From: Dennis Ferguson <dennis@mci.net>
> The one thing that hasn't been done, however, is to set an actual
> goal for routing efficiency.
Excellent!
> I'd like to state my guess that a good number to aim at might be
> about 1200 routes per fully-utilized class-A-sized chunk of address
> space. This would put the IPv4 end state at a maximum of about 250,000
> routes, ...
> I like the idea of measuring each and every class-A-sized block
> against some standard separately, since a lot of the class-C space has
> been allocated to regional registries this way and it inconveniences
> those places which have done the best the least. I'm less attached to
> the number 1200 in particular, but I do think an explicit target should
> be chosen which represents both a tractable limit to design big routers for
> and which allows the implementation of efficient address allocation strategies
> which won't have to be tighened over time.
I suggest that it be 2048 for each _pair_ of class As, since that's how
they were assigned in RFC-1366 & 1466.
Bill.Simpson@um.cc.umich.edu
Key fingerprint = 2E 07 23 03 C5 62 70 D3 59 B1 4F 5E 1D C2 C1 A2
