On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]> wrote: > It is not known with any scientific or engineering accuracy when > vanilla BGP4 will reach an economic or technical scaling limit (i.e. > when it becomes financially or physically impossible to continue > beefing up core BGP4 routers to cope with growth in the size or > update frequency of the BGP4 routing table).
Brian, I've been chewing on this one. Is it correct? Are we unable to say with scientific or engineering certainty that BGP4 has an technical or financial upper bound somewhere prior to 10M entries? If not, what's the case in favor of focusing any efforts on non-BGP solutions at this point? And what's the justification for maintaining the IETF recommendation that the RIRs impose artificial restrictions on the minimum allocation size? Or for that matter any restrictions at all on IPv6 assignment in multihomed environments? Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ [email protected] [email protected] 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004 _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] https://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
