size of the routing table is a big deal, especially in IPv6

Tue Nov 30 05:00:01 UTC 2004

Tony Li wrote:

> If there was a way that these costs were reallocated to the site that 
> decided to be multihomed, then the economics of the situation would 
> balance.  Imagine paying US $10K/yr to advertise a single prefix and 
> you would get to a point where people would make some more rational 
> decisions that didn't pollute the global table. 

Now there's a thought, and a pretty darned good one.  But, where would 
the money go?  Upstream(s)? 

It would certainly encourage more forethought into advertisements and 
aggregation.  But it leaves a lot of room for the economics to click.

Jeff