Brian,
On Dec 31, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
Adding more prefixes will hasten the inevitable.
Exactly. Thus far, since BGP4 was deployed, the size of the DFZ has
grown one order of magnitude less than the public Internet as a whole.
I'm curious: how do you measure the size of the public Internet as a
whole?
That's mainly a result of policy constraints on prefix length and
utilisation. If selfishness had ruled, we'd be vastly worse off by
now.
As much as I'd like to attribute a lack of selfishness to Internet
service providers and their customers, I suspect a more accurate
answer is that most folks haven't felt a need to multi-home (or
couldn't justify the cost/complexity). Yet. I have a sneaking
suspicion that will change when folks discover that all their
communications, business and/or home monitoring, entertainment, etc.
services are critically dependent on their Internet service and new
products/services are made available that make multi-homing easier/
more cost effective.
Regards,
-drc
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