What's really needed is a routing slot market (was: Using IPv6 withprefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN)

Matthew Petach mpetach at netflight.com
Mon Feb 7 20:19:16 UTC 2011


On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
>
...
> On the other hand, when we can deprecate global routing of IPv4, we
> will see an earth shattering improvement as the current 10:1 prefix
> to provider ratio (300,000 prefixes for ~30,000 active ASNs) drops
> to something more like 2:1 in IPv6 due to providers not having to
> constantly run back to the RIR for additional slow-start allocations.
>
> Owen

I suspect as we start seeing the CIDR report for IPv6, we'll see that
ASNs are announcing considerably more prefixes than that, in order
to localize traffic better.  I don't think it'll be 300,000 prefixes, but
I'd be willing to bet it'll be more than 100,000--not exactly "earth
shattering improvement".

Matt
(hopeless deaggregator)




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