On 2008-12-06 06:22, Teco Boot wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> |> CIDR is one success story.
> |
> |I hate to be a contrarian, but I think it's more accurate
> |to say CIDR *was* a success story (which you can clearly see
> |by examining the BGP growth curve for the 1994-1998 period).
> |It's much less clear that CIDR has been holding the floods
> |back since about 1999; there are other factors at work,
> |and the growth in PI assignments is probably the main reason
> |we're here (on this list).
>
> Without CIDR (and supernets), wouldn't we have > 2 million Class C prefixes
> in BGP?
Oh sure... but you may have noticed that we have more prefixes than we have
ASes, and in an ideally CIDRized and aggregated world that would not be the
case.
>
> I would say Internet is a success story. That's the main reason we're here.
Undoubtedly.
Brian
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