Re: draft-azinger-cidrv6-00

[David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>]

On Jul 21, 2010, at 10:28 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> Other eyebrows are already raised by the prospect of ten million
> BGP4 routes. It's really odd that the RIR constituencies aren't more
> worried about that.

It is the RIR constituencies that are creating and approving the policies that are encouraging that prospect.  Relying on the RIRs to protect the routing system is ... questionable since the RIR's role is (should be?) limited to the allocation and recording of registration information about those allocations.  Efforts by the RIRs to implement policies that limit de-aggregation or deny provider independent space to leaf networks has generally (and not surprisingly) resulted in those polices being rejected by the RIR communities.  

With the likely proliferation of multi-homing in the future (since people will be becoming more and more dependent on the Internet always being available) not to mention the likely result of market forces encouraging deaggregation of IPv4 address blocks, I'm guessing 10 million BGP4 routes is likely to be optimistic...

Regards,
-drc