[76030] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: size of the routing table is a big deal, especially in IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Kell)
Tue Nov 30 00:02:03 2004
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:00:01 -0500
From: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu>
To: NANOG <NANOG@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <41ABF3A3.9040203@tony.li>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Tony Li wrote:
> If there was a way that these costs were reallocated to the site that
> decided to be multihomed, then the economics of the situation would
> balance. Imagine paying US $10K/yr to advertise a single prefix and
> you would get to a point where people would make some more rational
> decisions that didn't pollute the global table.
Now there's a thought, and a pretty darned good one. But, where would
the money go? Upstream(s)?
It would certainly encourage more forethought into advertisements and
aggregation. But it leaves a lot of room for the economics to click.
Jeff
