> your announcement from wherever you are in the world consumes a slot in their routing tables
The size of the Internet’s routing table isn’t an ARIN problem, nor should it influence number policy decisions. It’s a vendor and operator problem. -Matt Matt Erculiani On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 17:05 William Herrin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 3:32 PM Dominik Dobrowolski > <[email protected]> wrote: > > In your article you mention two costs: > > > > 1. Cost of transport > > 2. Cost of hardware > > > > Both are included into the transit price we pay. If it was unprofitable, > transit prices would be higher to cover the costs. > > Howdy, > > Doesn't work that way. Look up "tragedy of the commons," and if it's > not obvious ask me to explain further and I will. > > > > Keep in mind that a full table in FIB is not necessary for DFZ access, > there are plenty of people > > running software routers capable of high throughput (especially with > VPP, DPDK) > > It's not about what you spend or might be able to spend. It's about > what everybody else spends. I wrote some of the software AWS runs > using DPDK. It's a great platform. It's a great tool for building > custom solutions at the network edge. Their network exterior > participating in the DFZ runs on Cisco and Juniper big-iron like > everybody else and your announcement from wherever you are in the > world consumes a slot in their routing tables. Unless it happens to be > with their BYOIP program, neither you nor anybody else pays them for > that consumption. > > > > Holding the growth of internet just to keep the life of routers longer > is 2008 mentality, just like the article mentioned. > > The exact input numbers have changed since the paper was written in > 2008. The math equations have not. > > Regards, > Bill Herrin > > -- > William Herrin > [email protected] > https://bill.herrin.us/ > _______________________________________________ > ARIN-PPML > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). > Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: > https://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml > Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues. >
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