I think it is going to have to happen. We have several folks on the IX and various consulting clients who only need 3-6 Ips but have to burn a full /24 to participate in BGP. I wrote a blog post awhile back on this topic https://blog.j2sw.com/data-center/unpopular-opinion-bgp-should-accept-smalle... Justin Wilson j2sw@mtin.net — https://j2sw.com (AS399332) https://blog.j2sw.com - Podcast and Blog
On Sep 30, 2023, at 1:48 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
About 60% of the table is /24 routes. Just going to /25 will probably double the table size.
or maybe just add 60%, not 100%. and it would take time.
agree it would be quite painful. would rather not go there. sad to say, i suspect some degree of lengthening is inevitable. we have ourselves to blame; but blame does not move packets.
randy, who was in the danvers cabal for the /19 agreement