[85917] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Scalability issues in the Internet routing system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elmar K. Bins)
Wed Oct 19 06:49:45 2005
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:46:04 +0200
From: "Elmar K. Bins" <elmi@4ever.de>
To: Andre Oppermann <nanog-list@nrg4u.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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nanog-list@nrg4u.com (Andre Oppermann) wrote:
> >Apart from that, IMHO cooking down the prefixes only buys time, but does
> >not solve the problem. More people will multihome, and with the current
> >mechanisms and routing cloud, they have to do it by injecting prefixes.
>
> And this won't change in future.
>
> >I'm not sure whether this hasn't long become an architectural question
> >and should be moved to the (new) IETF arch list. Opinions?
> >
> >Yours,
> > Elmi.
> >
> >PS: Btw, anyone can give me a hint on where to discuss new ideas for
> > e.g. routing schemes (and finding out whether it's an old idea)?
>
> With pretty high certainy one can say that it is an old idea with some
> minor twist or wording change.
I was thinking of something different from Susan's approach, hence my
question. Cooking up stuff to save memory and processing in the router
isn't it, IMHO, but I have ideas in my head which I would like to share.
But then, I wouldn't want to spoil everybody's time if it's old.
Elmar.
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