The last presentations that I saw about it said that we are going to be fine: http://www.iepg.org/2011-11-ietf82/2011-11-13-bgp2011.pdf http://www.iepg.org/2011-11-ietf82/iepg-201111.pdf Regards, as On 20/03/2013 02:53, Randy Bush wrote:
i am not saying bgp and forwarding can deal with growth forever, but
o over my career, the death of spinning oxide has always been two years away. yet the hardwhere jocks have continued to pull the rabbit out of the hat. perhaps, many decades later, ssds have finally caught up and physical limits are finally approaching.
o a dozen or so years ago, i shared an nsf grant with lixia, dan, and others called "better bgp," based on the assumption that bgp was not gonna scale. i took the contrary position, we actually had no clear measurement showing it was not going to scale. out of this came beacons, 'happy packets', etc.
so i think we need some measurements of the sky before we can judge the rate of its descent.
randy