People on this list of lists seem to be focussing on squeezing more aggregation out of assignment and routing policy's. But that won't work. The Internet isn't organized in a geographical way nor in a very hierarchical way. There are less than 2000 Autonomous Systems, but more than 30000 routes. That means an average of 15 routes per AS. That's the real problem. And we know how to fix it too: renumber. But whatever happens, the routingtable will continue to grow. Get used to it. At present I can still run full routing with only a Cisco 2514 so the problem is hardly as big as some people (Sprint...) like to tell themselves and the rest of us. We pay those backbone people big money, so either they do their job and quit complaining about their overloaded CPU's, tight memory and other stuff or they find themselves another line of work. I'm getting sick and tired of reading how everybody will bend over backwards to find a way to live with an utterly ridiculous policy of some dinosaur company with a flawed network because they pay their lawyers more than their engineers. Maybe they could get away with that in the good old phonebusiness, but not on the Internet. Iljitsch