In a message written on Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:31:32AM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote:
it will be interesting to see if this has acutal impact on ASN allocation rates globally.
I have done no analysis, but I do believe this is having an effect on the number of prefixes announced by many of the players involved. Looking at the top 10-20 peers over here, all of them show prefixes announced by the peers to be growing faster than the global prefix table. The only way that makes sense is if existing prefixes are being announced through additional providers. It would be interesting to see those more into BGP routing analysis to look at that (possible) trend. It's probably causing a shift in how BGP processing occures on both a device and a network level (more redundant paths) which could have implications for future gear. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org