William Herrin wrote: > On 8/30/07, John Curran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I.E. If at some time unknown around 2010, ISP's stop receiving >> new allocations from their RIR, and instead use of many smaller >> "recycled" IPv4 address blocks, we could be looking at a 10x to >> 20x increase in routes per month for the same customer growth. > > John, > > Why should we announce tiny recycled blocks? If there is a /16 in the > swamp in which half the space is free but its all /24's, why wouldn't > wouldn't we allocate all the free /24's to a single entity and > instruct the entity to announce it as a "holey" /16? The existing /24 > holders will override (punch holes in) the /16 for their /24's.
And when they withdraw the more specific or you glop them together in your fib in the name of agregation a 3rd party gets all their traffic? I'm sure that will work really well. > Regards, > Bill Herrin > >
