keeping the routing table in check: step 1

Thu Feb 16 04:05:20 UTC 2006

So while this may look nice and sound good and all that, I hate to ask the
obvious question...  Who is going to obtain the authority and/or balls to
take everyone's currently allocated IP addresses away and start over?

Perhaps I missed something in an earlier discussion, but this to me sounds
like a very nice, very academic "Hmmmmm" thought process.

Unfortunately reformatting the Internet is a little more painful that
reformatting your hard drive when it gets out of whack.

I guess my question is, what's the point of asking this question now?

Scott 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Edward B. DREGER
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 10:48 PM
To: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: keeping the routing table in check: step 1

Hopefully this thread will be quick and less convoluted.  Rather than simply
alluding to "one prefix per ASN", I'd like to detail an allocation scheme
that works toward that.

Find the largest contiguous block.  Split in half.  Round to appropriate
boundary.  Assign.  Space at the end of the block is reserved for expansion.

Ignoring special subnets for simplicity:

0/x, 128/x,
64/x, 192/x,
32/x, 96/x, 160/x, 224/x,
16/x, 48/x, 80/x, 112/x, 144/x, 176/x, 208/x

assuming all grow at equal rates.  96/x ends up growing quickly?  No
problem.  Skip 112/x for the time being.

In short, allocate IP space logarithmically.  Start with /1 alignment,
proceed to /2, then /3, and so on.  Keep the array as sparse as possible so
an assignment can be extended without hitting, say, a stride 4 boundary.

Perhaps RIRs should look at filesystems for some hints.  Imagine a
filesystem that's 30% full yet has as much fragmentation as IPv4 space. 
Something is wrong.

Eddy
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