On 03/10/2012 17:10, Russ White wrote:
> Because you could see this and mark your /24 not to be bounded (if we
> put that back in). We were trying for the simplest solution to
> increasing table sizes --I know there are economic reasons the table
> sizes are growing, but we need at least some option to de-escalate the
> madness at some point.

People have been saying for the last twentysomething years that the sky is
falling due to DMZ growth.  Geoff Huston gave a talk about this last year
in Vienna where he presented some data and analysis:

http://ripe63.ripe.net/archives/video/178
http://ripe63.ripe.net/presentations/61-2011-10-31-bgp2011.pdf

I'm not suggesting that the DFZ couldn't do with a bit of slimming, but the
bgp RIB is not the best place to do it because you're losing too much
information too early.

Nick

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