William Herrin wrote:
On 8/30/07, John Curran <jcurran@mail.com> wrote:
I.E. If at some time unknown around 2010, ISP's stop receiving new allocations from their RIR, and instead use of many smaller "recycled" IPv4 address blocks, we could be looking at a 10x to 20x increase in routes per month for the same customer growth.
John,
Why should we announce tiny recycled blocks? If there is a /16 in the swamp in which half the space is free but its all /24's, why wouldn't wouldn't we allocate all the free /24's to a single entity and instruct the entity to announce it as a "holey" /16? The existing /24 holders will override (punch holes in) the /16 for their /24's.
And when they withdraw the more specific or you glop them together in your fib in the name of agregation a 3rd party gets all their traffic? I'm sure that will work really well.
Regards, Bill Herrin