Clue Store wrote: > I think you're missing my point and did not read my post completely. > > First off, BGP was never mentioned in my post.
Oops, you are correct. Somebody else said "BGP." You spoke of the existing table, and so I had BGP in my mind, and I muddled the two together. Mea culpa. > If I accept a /29 for the minority and pass that prefix along to the > next provider, I have to accept it for the majority and pass them > along to the next provider. And these 500 company's you speak about, > the other blocks given back to <insert RIR or LIR here> would be > hashed back out which WOULD still increase prefixes in the global > table as they want to advertise their /29's. I agree that it would > save v4 space right now for those who wouldn't announce the remainder > /29's, but you're thinking short term as we all know that v4 space has > out-welcomed it's stay (thank you NAT). Yes, it will run paraellel for > 3, 5, maybe 7 years until enough folks get a clue and make the switch > to v6, but in the end, v4 will go away. That assumes that there isn't a solution that requires constant presence in the global table, instead of a tell-me-about-this-prefix-when-I-need-it-and-not-before method. I admit that there hasn't been a good solution to the problem yet, but that doesn't mean there isn't one. I'm not sure it has been seriously researched in recent years. > Having all that said, I am not knocking the 'dreamers' out there one > bit. I encourage new ideas to help solve issues that we've discussed > in this very thread. But at this point, there's more dreaming than > solutions and revenue. And de-aggreation is one of the biggest > problems with global routing today. Add v6 and the possibility of > /48's being permitted into the global table, and most folks with a > router from any vendor today couldn't support a full global table. No, but providers having to upgrade software or hardware to support the needs of the network in 3, 5, or 7 years isn't anything new, and neither is router vendors coming up with incremental software or hardware upgrades to make boxes do what they can't do now. -Dave