Yakov writes:
The most serious problem we're facing is NOT how to route to the existing allocations, but how we're going to route to all the new allocations that are due to the exponential growth of the Internet.
From this and an earlier mail (somewhere you said we should "deploy CIDR") I sense some kind of fundamental problem in this discussion.
From -my- point of view CIDR -is- deployed:
- we've been allocating from provider blocks for probably two years now, and the number of prefixes announced has been growing -very- slowly (with respect to -new- allocation of addresses), even with customers not returning their addresses when they leave us. Do you have -any- hard data that anything else is happening at a global scale? - there is naturally a tendency for the provider address space to fragment over time, however do we have -any- data that this is causing any of the problems we are seeing (it surely isn't creating a large increase in prefixes -now-)? - nearly -all- of the prefixes we announce are pre-CIDR allocations (B and quite a large number of C's (that we are trying to clean up)), I don't believe this to be different with any other ISP. Yakov, if you have data that CIDR is -not- working for new allocations please present it here. Simon