16 Aug
1995
16 Aug
'95
3:29 p.m.
the routing table is no longer doubling every nine months. we've been sort of hanging out in the 25,000 - 30,000 range for almost six months now.
another explanation of the famous graph is that has entered a sawtooth phase. there is still the same underlying growth, which one can see on the upswings, where dx/dt is pretty much the same old scary ramp. the vertical drops are when yet another AS aggregates. smooth it with a nice line, and things appear to have changed. but soon we will run out of old messes [willing] to aggregate. randy