This is not really supprising if you have been following changes in RIR address allocation policy, which seems really to me to be following a trend, more than creating one, but it is worth noting that the trend exists. In message <4.3.1.2.20000513213942.00a9dd90@mako1.telstra.net>, Geoff Huston write s:
Try www.telstra.net/ops/bgp.html for another view of the same accelerated curve, together with a number of other views of the BGP space.
The interesting aspect to note is the declining amount of address space per routing advertisement on average.
Geoff
At 05:50 PM 5/13/00, pjnesser@Nesser.COM wrote:
I was just looking through the graphs on Tony's Web site and noticed something somewhat disturbing. For the first 2000 days of Tony's plots (starting from 1/1/1994) the number of routes has grown roughly by 10,000 every 500 days. so 20k --> 30k, 30k --> 40k, 40k --> 50k, & 50k --> 60k.
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