Start accepting longer prefixes as IPv4 depletes?

Wed Dec 8 23:08:20 UTC 2010

On 8 dec 2010, at 23:48, Jack Bates wrote:

> I'm going to go out on a limb (and not read the last BGP summary reports) and say that ISPs being assigned fragmented space has caused more routing table bloat than deaggregation for traffic engineering.

Why would ISPs get fragmented space? The RIRs are still getting /8s from IANA at the moment.

And most deaggregation is not for traffic engineering because the attributes are all the same.