IPv6 BGP table size comparisons

Wed Dec 22 11:59:22 UTC 2010

On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> People might say that it would not be helpful at all as we want IPv6
> deployed but on the other hand people apply their doings of the last
> 10 years 1:1 to IPv6 and continue on the same mistakes which will not
> be helpful either.

Indeed...

> I would really love to see weekly Routing Reports for IPv6 as we have
> them for legacy IP rather sooner than later.

This would provide statistics and might be useful from historical POV, 
but I fear the operational impact of published IPv4 Routing Table 
reports is close to zero. (E.g. 'does it help in making people stop 
advertising unnecessary more-specific routes?'.)  I don't expect that 
to change.

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