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-smaller-than-a-24/




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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